Today I decided to try out some of the actual London Marathon route and that went well, until it was time to turn back from Creek Road in Greenwich and come back the other way… this seems to have been a flaw in my plan as I really didn’t enjoy it and with (left this […]
Following the Hampton Court Half Marathon on Sunday I’ve been walking like a granny for three days with very sore shoulders, so after a huge amount of stretching I decided to give in a book a full body massage with my favourite local salon the Greenwich Clipper. Sadly my usual lovely lady Nicola was injured […]
Being myself a complete novice in the area of running, training, exercise in general; I knew not what to expect from a Marathon Training session with my King’s College running team mates (now there’s a phrase I never thought I’d have occasion to use!) It is true that we do have a Facebook page to […]
I’d like to thank the marvellous Lady Catherine for my brilliant blog title this week, as we discussed my injury whilst I sat knee elevated and iced. I ran home from work last night (5.2 miles) from Docklands via the Island Gardens to Greenwich foot tunnel (quite an eye opener I can tell you…) and […]
Okay, okay… I confess it, I have been utterly disgraceful and shamelessly gave into the festive fun in the last two weeks of December (as I became increasingly inundated) with the usual rounds of pre-Christmas parties, dinners and drinks; achieving very little training the process, save only a couple of less than productive gym sessions. […]
So today I’ve had a rather sore back and in an effort to avoid the terror of another visit to the evil [read: amazing] sport masseuse so soon after the last, I was determined to take advice on dealing with this. After discussions with Lady Catherine who advised a river run was not a good […]
