The headphones situation has been resolved. I guess that is how I think of it. I was running with JLAB headphones that had good sound quality, but were regular ear buds. When running, as I would have my iPod Nano in the back pouch of my running shorts, and the cord threaded up inside my…
Category: royal parks half
08/10/2012
The obligatory race photo
06/10/2012
It is the day before the Royal Parks half marathon and I am sitting blogging with the map on the dining table next to me. Under it my Nike+ GPS watch is dormant, and plugged into my iPod Nano is my newly arrived Yurbuds Ironman Endure Pro headphones. On the other side of my laptop…
02/10/2012
Last long run before the Royal Parks half marathon and I am a happy chappie. After a rough night sleep where I was bolt upright and awake at 4am, I managed a nice easy 12K run without any trouble in a time that would mean my target of a sub 2 hour 15 minute half…
29/09/2012
Rest is good… I have decided to rest. Yesterday and today, being Saturday I have let the programme slide to fully recover from the week, the cold, Sunday’s Teach First 10K, whatever caused my legs to feel like crap all week from shins to hips. I was starting to worry that I would not be…
27/09/2012
Royal Parks Half Marathon I am 10 days from my first half marathon, half my goal, all within 7 months but yet again my knee is acting up. It is my age old injury, the medial collateral ligament on the left knee. It used to be bad all the time, it used to swell to…
08/10/2012
The Royal Parks Half Marathon“When a guy turns up to Fight Club his ass is a wad of cookie dough, after a few weeks he is carved out of wood.” Tyler Durden, Fight Club. The Royal Parks Half marathon always seemed a long way away for me. Nestling deep in the Autumn when I signed up…
04/10/2012
Disaster seems to have struck in its own inimitable style. First my knee is now playing up as the weather is changing for the worse and the compression bandage and anti-inflammatories are not working. And the last two runs my feet hurt. They hurt so much this time that I stopped after 2K of the most dreadful…
22/09/2012
Again in the email the countdown to my first half marathon continues. The Royal Parks half marathon has been emailing all the runners updates, advice, training tips and then yesterday… So I have just over two weeks until I run 21K in one go (the longest I have run is 16.6KM so far). I hope I…
17/09/2012
Being sick really can be a pain in the ass, and I always had a fear that something would scupper my plans of running happiness this Autumn. This morning, just 6 days away from the TeachFirst 10K, I woke and my nose was like this… Whilst my eyes felt like… And my knee, the bad…
Runners Knees 