No Sleep for the racing!
Following on from the post about going straight to a race from a night-shift. Can you spot this on the graph……..?
Following on from the post about going straight to a race from a night-shift. Can you spot this on the graph……..?
I seem to have a lifetime’s wealth of experience about breaking my body and mind in many different ways. And the last 24 hours was no exception providing a new chapter in this. Having been…
After work today I popped into the supermarket. I didn’t need too much, but as it was mostly cat food that a certain furry member of the household required I did my best to disguise…
Well it’s been over 2 months since the 7th half-marathon of the 13 Challenge and indeed that length of time since I raced at all (the 10k was the week after Buxton). With the weather…
I remembered last night what it is like trying to run in hay fever season – hard work! The weather in the last week has been un-Britishly seasonal – i.e. it’s July and not raining…
Playing with a spreadsheet after a full week at work is never a good idea. (Some people would doubt it as a good idea regardless – we all have our weaknesses!) With having a 10k…
I woke up very early today. Perhaps it was the sunshine streaming into the bedroom, or the early night as a result of the bike ride yesterday. Whatever it was I was ready for a…
Well I always knew that phase 1 of the house build was just that, and what comes after is phase 2. Wednesday was that new beginning, when the plasterwork in the bedroom, held on purely…
I must say getting going today was quite difficult which, for a race day, is quite unusual. 3 attempts to leave the house – cats and wallets getting the better of me before Waze decided…
Today was Half-Marathon race #4 – Blackpool. With a 9.30am race start this involved getting up very early on a Sunday morning which wasn’t much fun. But I managed it even though the cat clearly…