Thanks, Lizzie :o)

Fame at last!

My mother writes one of the local news columns in the Kilmarnock Standard, and she contacted Lizzie Struthers, one of the sports reporters, to find out whether she would be interested in featuring the 10 Marathons in 10 Days Challenge, the local interest angle being that I grew up in Kilmarnock.

I'm delighted with the article that Lizzie has written :o)

Leon and I have both made an excellent recovery from the Shakespeare Marathon. I was a little unresponsive in the quadriceps department on Monday, but was running normally again by Tuesday.

Looking back at Shakespeare, I am very pleased with my finishing time, and even more pleased with ... LEON! Come and tell these good people what you did on Sunday! But I'm most pleased with how easy it was. I had to tackle some head-stuff in the first ten miles or so, but physically I was never out of my depth and at the end the people I was passing were commenting on how effortlessly I was running. I only felt as if I was working at all in the last two-and-a-half miles, and even then I managed to maintain sub-8.30mm pace and a respectable finishing sprint.

D'you know what? I think there's a sub-3:30 lurking in this old body :o)

Meanwhile, it's nearly 10-in-10 time. Eight days from now, I'll have finished the first marathon. I'm starting to think about things I haven't bothered with until now, like what running kit and additional food to take, how many pairs of F-Lite 230s I'll need (I shall probably alternate F-Lites with my least old pair of Vaporflys), and - as someone who is always busy, this is a serious consideration - how I'm going to cope with not having work or domestic chores to occupy me when I'm not running. I wonder whether there are any surgeries in Hawkshead or Windermere in need of someone to do a little afternoon surgery ... ;o)