30 Years of Running Marathons
30 Years of Running Marathons
Hangovers and Heel Strikes: Racing the 'Beat the Boat' 10K Amidst Wellness and Woes
Ever wondered what it’s like to race against a boat while nursing a hangover? Join me as I recount my exhilarating experience at the Beat the Boat 10K, where I managed to cross the finish line in 54 minutes and 46 seconds despite a few too many drinks the night before. From the intensity of the race to unwinding in the lap of luxury at a spa hotel in Hayling Island, I share how I balanced indulgence with the pain of my hereditary gout and what it takes to maintain an active lifestyle amidst it all.
The journey doesn't stop there. I dive into a day of wellness activities that took an unexpected turn. Between skipping meals and the onset of foot pain, I found myself substituting my usual treadmill routine with swimming and experimenting with sauna and steam room sessions. However, the day concluded with a tantalizing meal and a thrilling England vs. Switzerland match, only to be followed by a rapid worsening of my gout symptoms, leaving me in significant discomfort and questioning my ability to work the next day.
But running isn't just about the races; it's also about the community. Reflecting on my Parkrun experiences, I discuss the highs and lows of running after a grueling night shift and dealing with health setbacks. From being humorously outpaced by a 14-year-old to celebrating personal milestones, I emphasize the importance of consistency and personal progress over competition. Tune in for updates on my training journey, and some much-needed encouragement to keep moving forward, no matter the obstacles.
Thanks for listening. Keep on running.
The race is on. The race is on, so let's get straight into this episode of 30 years of running marathons. This episode is running a little bit late because I had problems with my laptop so I was unable to record as early as I would have liked to, so running a few days late here. But let's get straight into this episode. There's been a lot that's happened since the last episode. In my last episode I was running Beat the Boat, which was a 10k race, and it's all documented. In my last episode, basically what happened was it was I haven't done much training, it's been on and off. I'd also had a few drinks because England were playing Switzerland in the Euro championships, which by now we all know that England didn't even make it to the final. We lost in the semifinal to Netherlands. But hey, that's another story Anyway. So I don't know what you drink before a race. I had a few drinks before the race, but it was more of a fun race, a 10K race. You run against a boat and it was um, it was very close. I wasn't feeling particularly good, obviously because I'd been drinking the night before. On this particular race you can actually have prosecco and be at the drink stations, but obviously I can, I'd had enough the night before and coming into the the final furlong, shall we say uh, the boat and I were neck and neck and coming into you do a lap around the the field, and just at the finish, and I was just coming up to the top of the field and the boat was just coming down the river and it was literally just in front of me and I just managed to get my my literally my neck in front of it and I've never had such a tough finish. I had to push it all the way to just beat it and I think I finished in something like 54 minutes, 46, and I put down for my time 55 minutes. So it was a very much a close call and I'd really had it at the end and the weather had been quite warm uh, warmer than I thought it would be, but at least it wasn't rainy. And yeah, it was. Um, I was absolutely shattered. But that was all in my previous episode. So if you want to hear more about it, have a look at my previous episode. But since then a lot has happened, a lot. There's been a lot of changes going on.
Speaker 1:So after that I'd finished on the Sunday I'd put myself in for a couple of nights. Well, I call it a spa retreat, but basically it's a rather nice hotel down in a place called Hale and Island, south coast of England. I was hoping, because obviously it's the middle of summer here but obviously it's the UK so we don't necessarily get hot weather. I was hoping to do a bit of swimming down on the coast, but even if I couldn't do the swimming to recover from my rates, I knew they had these luxurious spa facilities such as a jacuzzi, sauna, swimming pool, so I knew there'd be plenty to do um and just to relax in the luxurious room as well. I knew it'd be nice. So I've been down there several times before and the staff tend to know me, so it was great. When I went there they said oh, we've moved you to a, a nice room which has got plenty of wi-fi. You know the wi-fi is really good and in fact it overlooked the harbour, which is really nice too, and normally they charge more for that. So I can believe I had such a lovely view of the harbour and so I got down there on the first night on Monday.
Speaker 1:So it was just for a couple of nights, first night on the Monday and obviously I was feeling the aches and pains from the previous race on the Sunday. So I stocked up on, you know, having a really good meal to you know, plenty of protein, which is what you should have after a race. And I don't normally eat it because I have to be very careful because I get gout and I had a. They do some beautiful gourmet meals there, so I had this shin of beef with a lovely red wine. Now it's not cheap, you know, just for a glass of wine. Large glass of wine can be 10 pounds and we're looking at maybe 20 something pounds for for the for the shin of beef. But I mean, now I like michelin star meals, really, really tasty, and it was only for a couple of nights. But, as I say, sometimes it can bring on gout.
Speaker 1:Things like red meat, alcohol and gout is excruciating. I've explained it before in previous episodes. But basically I I don't get it because of the diet so much because I don't drink a lot or eat a lot of meat. Normally it's because my father had it and so it's hereditary. But basically I get it in my feet and my knees and I'll just briefly explain it.
Speaker 1:Basically, there are certain purines in foods that we have. So certain foods have really high purines, like beer, red meat, and what happens is your kidneys kidneys the purines create uric acid. Now, normally for everybody, the kidneys easily flush out the uric acid. Mine don't flush out as easily. So what happens is the uric acid forms in your body and it forms these crystals, and these crystals rubbed together it becomes really painful, really sore, gets inflamed. I even had to have a day off work the other day because this is what happened.
Speaker 1:I just literally couldn't walk. So it's one of the most painful things. It's apparently one of the most painful things, I think, after childbirth, and it's either gallstones or kidney stones, something like that, but it is really painful. I never felt anything like it and it's one of those pains you can't get away from and you could be writhing around in bed with this agony, pain in your foot, and you just wish someone would cut your foot off, because it's such a raw pain you probably wouldn't feel it. The pain is, it's like you're possessed by the devil. It's absolutely horrible and obviously you know it stops me from working. I can't even walk, let alone run. It's really debilitating and it can last a week.
Speaker 1:So it really affects my, my training for races, um, but I've been taking these cherry. They're like cherry capsules. You can get cherry juice, but these are in the capsule forms and they have to be a certain cherry, so they're more merity cherries from america and I order them online. I get like three months worth. It's about 20 quid, but they seem to be working because since january I haven't had a gout attack, so they've been working really well. So I was really happy with that. So I was quite confident. You know, just a couple of days of eating good food and wine and beer, I'd be fine. I mean, I had one or two pints before the meal as well and I was just relaxing. I've got a lovely bar area. You can relax with teas and sofas and and armchairs. It's just a really nice chilled atmosphere.
Speaker 1:Normally be having a drink outside, but the weather wasn't good, um, first evening wasn't bad. Then the next day it was rainy all day, uh, and that could tell my activities. But when I woke up the next day I could just literally feel the gout coming on. I can feel it coming on, um, and I felt very lethargic and still tired from the race. You know it was only a 10 K but it really taken out me. Normally 10 Ks don't take that much out of me. So there was nothing left for me. You know I wasn't. The beach was just down the road 10 minutes, but we were talking like really heavy rain. There's puddles everywhere. Now I thought no, and I just didn't have the energy. I mean, I went down for breakfast and yet again, I don't normally have cooked breakfast.
Speaker 1:My diet is really very good. I mean, obviously I'm training most of the time all year round for a particular race and nutrition is very important, obviously, when you're undertaking any kind of race, especially marathons and half marathons. But you know, I've always been lucky in my way. I don't particularly have. You know, I don't go on a strict diet for a certain period of time. I just generally always have eaten fairly good. For example, I don't go on a strict diet for a certain period of time, I just generally always have eaten fairly good. For example, I don't really have a sweet tooth, yet when I was a kid I had um, you know, four teaspoons of sugar in my coffee and tea. I don't do that now. I mean, I never have sugar in my coffee. Sometimes I have honey, and I keep honey in as well sometimes for if I get a sore throat, so obviously with the lemon, and also lemon juice is really good if you have a gal attack.
Speaker 1:But generally, I mean, I don't hardly ever eat any meat, not because I'm a vegetarian, it's just the fact that I've been brought up to, you know, to have many meals that don't contain meat, that are just as tasty. For example, I do a lovely courgette pasta, I do a chana masala, which is chickpea curry, and I don't think, oh my word, they haven't got meat in. You know, I'm having a day without meat. I don't think like that. I just generally, just generally, you know, and meat can be so expensive nowadays I can't really afford to have meat all the time anyway. But you know, to be honest, I don't miss it.
Speaker 1:I don't eat cakes or sweets, unless if I was out somewhere maybe someone offered me a cake or a sweet. I don't eat biscuits, um, yeah, maybe the odd packet of crisps, but I don't, you know. I don't eat takeaways, don't you know? Don't go to these burger chains and have burgers Anytime. I have a burger, say, if I'm on this two night break, or just after a race, have a burger. You know you deserve it and it's all the protein from the meat which is good after a race. But apart from that, I don't I don't, you know really eat ice creams. I might have an ice lolly in the summer, but I've really gone off the sweet tooth.
Speaker 1:For example, when I go for this break, I had a starter, so I had a starter, and yet again, this isn't particularly good for gout and I think this is what brought the gout attack on. I had. It was like a, I think in the olden days, in the 70s, my nan always used to make one called a prawn cocktail. So you have your prawns and like a mayonnaise sauce and a bit of salad. This was a fancier one, a prawn crayfish, what they called a prawn crayfish sort of like cocktail, and it was really tasty. I had that before the shin of beef and obviously the red wine last glass of red wine and that and but.
Speaker 1:But even I was out of it and I say for breakfast because I've been digressing it, get back to the breakfast. I don't, you know, for breakfast I would normally have a couple of boiled eggs and a bagel peanut butter bagel but here, you know, I could have had. The continental breakfast is included. So you know, I just you just help yourself. So I stocked up on fried eggs, scrambled eggs and bacon, which is probably the worst for gout Processed meats and sausages as well, which are bad for gout. I stayed off the tomatoes because I'm not really into tomatoes. Tomatoes can be bad for gout but it can be OK as well. It just depends on you. I mean, if I had black pudding, I probably would have had that as well, because I love black pudding. But he didn't have that. And you know a coffee. I tried to stay off the orange juice because orange juice isn't particularly good for gout.
Speaker 1:Um, and then, once my breakfast had gone down, I literally went down to uh, yeah, I don't think I had any lunch that day. No, I didn't. I just went down to, uh, the spa where they got the jacuzzi. But I could feel the pain coming on in my foot and I certainly didn't feel like using the gym. Normally I go on the treadmill. I just didn't have the energy for weights. I'm not very particular. I'm not very good at weights. Anyway, I'm not a particularly muscular person. I can never put muscle on, so I'd rather use a treadmill. But I said, I went to the pool and the pool was pretty empty so I had a few lengths of that.
Speaker 1:But even then I wasn't my normal, you know, because for the last couple of days as well, after the race, I'd had this cold coming on. It felt like a cold, sore throat, so I was having honey and lemon and block nose and just something wasn't right. Normally your body can tell you when you're not. You know, you can have all this technology garmin watches, whatever telling you your sleep patterns, you know your diet, etc. But you know, after so many years, um, especially for me, of running and trying to look after myself and nutritional wise and health wise, I hardly ever get colds and that this was a cold that I'd got and whether it's with.
Speaker 1:Fact I've been working a lot lately and not getting enough breaks and just maybe my diet has suffered. I haven't had a bad diet, I probably just haven't had enough veg, for example. I've been skipping a lot of meals. If I've been working nights, and you know that obviously knocks your immune system when your immune system is down, then you're more liable to catch things obviously knocks your immune system. When your immune system is down, then you're more liable to catch things.
Speaker 1:Um, I take a multivitamin and vitamin tablet drink in the morning and I have a lot of uh. You know I do try and drink a lot of coffee as well to stay for the gout, and coffee can be good for you, also could be good for your running as well. It's been well known to increase your stamina, so so coffee can be a good thing. Uh, despite you know a lot of people saying it can be bad for your, coffee can be good thing. I drink milk as well for the protein. Um, so yeah, but but back to to the, the uh at the gym.
Speaker 1:So I didn't use the gym, but I did a lot of swimming, but I probably only did about 20 minutes, whereas normally I could go for about an hour. I just wasn't feeling. So I went in the in the hot tub, which was really nice. I tried to stay clear of the sauna and the steam room because apparently, if you've got gout coming on, if you go in the sauna and steam room, all it does is it sweats you out. I mean, obviously you sweat because the sauna and steam room are so hot and the trouble is, when you sweat like that, you literally you know you're going to become dehydrated, and that's one of the things of getting out. If you're dehydrated and that's the thing about alcohol, if you drink a lot of alcohol what happens is your kidneys have to flush out the alcohol first of all, so it has more trouble getting out obviously, the uric acid. So I tried to stick clear that, even though I do like to go in the sauna and steam room because obviously it's so good, good for your skin. So I did that and then I think I went.
Speaker 1:I went back to my room, laid on the bed for a little while I was that tired before I went out, um, downstairs, for my, my next meal, my next night's dinner, which, again, I think I had a pint or two of cider and then a large glass of wine I think this was this was white this time um, what did I have to me? Oh, I had these, these lovely the korean, uh, like fried chicken wings, which was really nice, and that was for starters, um, and then for main, uh. What did I have for Maine? I think I had the. Oh, I know what I had for the Maine? Yeah, normally I have the, because if I'm running I have your lovely linguine, seafood, linguine, but I actually had the fish pie which is made up of salmon, haddock and yet again, all these, you know, all this seafood, seafood, seafood is known to be bad for gout, so it was really a poison chalice for me. But I thought it's only two nights.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I stay at the hotel for seven nights and and I'm not quite gout, so I thought it was just a couple nights, I thought it'd be fine, but I could. I could feel it coming on and that night I really did have trouble sleeping. It was really painful in my left foot, um, and luckily, you know it, it wasn't too bad enough not for me to drive, and I spent that that on the way home. I popped over to the beach, had a little dip in the sea it wasn't particularly warming up, I just thought, you know, be good for my skin and that and I managed to drive home. It wasn't too bad.
Speaker 1:But the following day day, uh, oh, I remember, yeah, that that night, um, england were playing, uh, switzerland, um, and I was working the next day. So I watched it at home because I couldn't go to the pub, because obviously I was working the next day, and then overnight. And this is how quickly the the gout can really increase. Overnight it just got so bad. Um, I had so much trouble just just walking in the morning I almost had to ring my boss to say I couldn't come in trouble was I was so frightened of doing that because he probably would have thought it was because I was watching the uh the match the previous night and got hung over or something. So I struggled my way into work, but then the next, but I struggled so much at work and it was a really hot day which made matters worse and I didn't get a break. So the next day I just, I just the pain got so much worse I just couldn't go in. But luckily it was only a day off, and so these Montmercy cherry tablets I'm taking must be good, because normally it would flare up into a much worse condition where I've been laying in bed, you know, in screw shape pain for a week. So luckily it didn't come to anything.
Speaker 1:But obviously, getting back to what this podcast is all about, which is my, my marathons and my training, I just haven't, you know, it's just like all this year my training's been up and down. If you've been listening to't you know, it's just like all this year my training has been up and down. If you've been listening to my episodes you know I managed a few uh races, uh more, the shorter distances, the five case, the 10 Ks, a lot of park runs and the odd half marathon. But you know it's been one of those up and down. I've started a new job and that's been very stressful been working all the hours, not getting the brace at different shift times, not getting probably the nutrition in, and then obviously struck down with this gout, the cold. It's just been all over the place at the moment and sometimes you know, these things you can't control. As I say, you can only control the controllables.
Speaker 1:So, um, after beat the boat, I've only literally only run a couple of um training runs, did a couple of three milers and this saturday just gone, um, I actually ran a park run and, to be honest, I'd worked the night before and it'd been a long night. I hadn't really eaten anything. I think it's because it's been so hot during the evening. Surprisingly, here in the uk had been a hot one, so I hadn't. I was so tired when I got back this about about midnight. By the time I even got to sleep and I thought there's no way I'm going to be able to do the park run. But I want to do a park run Because, if you listen to my previous episodes, it's not just the fact to run, it's just the fact that you meet so many friends down there, regulars, and it's a good social thing and it's a nice distance to do.
Speaker 1:And I happened to wake up at 7 seven, which probably gave me about just an hour or so, uh, to get ready. So I had an energy drink and I've been drinking a lot of energy drinks recently as well. Now these carbonated sugary drinks. They're also really bad for gout and I don't normally have them, but because I've been feeling so stressed at well, feeling the energy, I've been drinking them. So I think that, and the uh, the other drinking and the good food and the wine, I think it's all contributed to that gout attack. But I thought I nearly won just to, just to get me moving. So I drove down. It's only about 10 minutes to black park, to my favorite uh park run. I didn't feel too bad. I had a banana beforehand and I felt okay.
Speaker 1:But when I started off I was really struggling and I was thinking I'm just gonna, all I've got to do is just get through this, just be grateful I can do it. I mean, the weather was fine, you know what wasn't? A bit bit bit humid, but it wasn't raining. It was, you know, more or less perfect weather. So, but the first mile was a lot slower than I expected. Bear in mind I think it was the last park run that I'd done, which I think I put on one of my previous episodes actually done my fastest park run of the year, and that was only a few weeks ago. So it's amazing how quickly things can change and I had to remember that.
Speaker 1:So the first mile, and then the second mile, um is when I always really slow down. I mean it's it's basically 5k, but I work in miles. I mean they've got k marks on their. By working miles it's just over three miles, 3.1 miles, things like that, and um, yeah. So the second mile, I always tell. And then the third mile, certainly last case, slightly uphill, and I I was really struggling. I mean, at the end of the day, my pace, I thought it was a lot worse than what it was. I think it was something like 835 pace and I finished in I think it's like 2640. So, looking back, I think it was only about a minute outside my fastest time this year.
Speaker 1:I didn't. I tried to do my normal sprint finish. When I came around the corner it's always like the sprint finish I saw this guy in front of me, I overtook him and I sprinted, as I always say, through the line rather than to the line, and I thought I'd made it. I didn't see in the left hand side of me this young kid he was. I say say young. I mean, he didn't. He didn't look that young. When I checked on the results later he certainly was. I think he just pipped me. Anyway, I gave it to him. I was going to argue with him, um, but I was so annoyed that he just picked me on the line and when looking at the results later, he was only a 14 year old kid. So I'm you know I've got too much to worry about. I'm quite a little bit older than him.
Speaker 1:What annoyed me most was the fact that I think he was in 150th and I was 151. You know, I'd like that round figure, 150 probably than 51, but 151 out of 600 runners, that's not bad, because you know how bad I felt and also I ran down to the, the open air cafe afterwards and luckily it wasn't a queue got my normal large cappuccino and that lady there said are you all right? I said well, yeah, I just feel a little bit half dead. And she was wiping the, the table outside. She said yeah. I said that's probably my sweat pouring down there, because I was sweating like anything, the humidity was so strong.
Speaker 1:And then afterwards I met a friend of mine who hadn't seen for ages and, funny enough, he was doing a walking and running expedition and he'd walked the few miles, walked around the few mast here and then was also going further on almost to where I live and then back again. So, and he'd also done the parkrun as well in between. So he's really going for it. But he was saying he hadn't done a lot of training recently. He's a, he specializes more in triathlons, but he'd seen about my beat the boat and said that I've done really well. Apparently the time that I did 54 minutes 54 minutes bearing my pb is 44 minutes on a flat 10k at 54 minutes. He was saying that's near his pb. So it made me feel a lot better. So at the end of the day it's all about, uh, comparisons. We should never compare ourselves to each other, only compare ourselves against ourselves.
Speaker 1:So if you're just starting out, the um, half marathon to marathons, park runs it's just about progression, whether you either do it on time you know how long you you or or how many miles or half miles sometimes it's best just to see. You know when you're first starting out how long you can last for, and it's just getting out the doors the hardest bit and then you run or you walk to start with. Walk run, walk run, walk run and you just improve it by bit and you'll be surprised how quickly you soon progress up to running like the couch to 5k. You're soon running 5k um, and then, once you're running 5k, and you know, I think the last person at that park run on saturday, I think they came in over an hour, something like about an hour and 10 minutes, and they were walking it. So you got the tail wall because you got all standards people running with dogs, push des. You know park run is for everybody. So if you're in the uk and you can do a park run, um, you know, get yourself down there because you'll meet a lot of people and then you can improve on yourself. You know you can improve your time because it's not a race, okay, even though people can be competitive, it's not a race. Nobody cares where you finish. Okay, you don't get a medal, but you get the kudos of building up the number of runs you do, and once you get to 50, you can get a special T-shirt of 50 on 100, 200.
Speaker 1:And I said years ago, I said I'd never run a park run, because I know it sounds a bit sort of arrogant, a bit sort of you know, I'm making light of it, but it's just the way I am. For me it was always too short, I would struggle and and there's me telling you guys, you know, don't worry, just just go into all these, right. But I was worried, the fact that I would really struggle because it's such a short distance and I'm very competitive and I've, and you're going to be running that much quicker, whereas a half marathon it's much slower pace. You get more clueless for it. I didn't want to have to worry about having to sprint around doing three miles. But you know, as I found out myself and as I've just said to you, nobody cares.
Speaker 1:At Parkrun it's all about community running and you can be a tourist park runner and go to other places. I've done a few other park runs and it's great. Such a social atmosphere, especially during the summer. Okay, the winter you might find it a bit harder, but during the summer, when you sit outside, have a coffee afterwards, you know, you've got this great, great social atmosphere. So I highly recommend it.
Speaker 1:And, in fact, that was my 60th park run and it was actually the 15th anniversary of the Black Park park run, and when they first started in Black Park they only had a handful of people. They thought if they could get to 50 100 people, they'd never guess it'd be 600 people and it's now one of the largest ones in the uk. So, and it's I'm probably biased, but it's probably one of the most beautiful ones to run as well. You get some park runs where you're literally just running around the field, whereas this is through ancient woodland. As I mentioned before, they've done a lot of filming there, like harry potter, and they still film there today doing various films because it's such a beautiful location. So I'm lacking their respect to my local park run. But yeah, it's my 60th park run, the 15th anniversary. They start in 2009. So, yeah, a lot of times passed since then and they had 60th park run. This rail soon be up to my hundredth. Better get another t-shirt.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I'm, I'm surprised, but when I could, I wish you should do my long runs on saturday, when I can't do my long runs and no, a run is better than no run. In fact, a bad run is better than no run, you know just to get out the door because, as I said before, if you only did a park run when you felt like or should I say if you only did a run when you felt like it, you'd never get out the door. Um, and that's what I'm struggling with at the moment, this gap has really left me, uh, drained, and that's what it does even after the pain's gone it leaves you drained. I think the cold is clearing up now, but it's really drained. My next race and it comes around so quickly. My next race is and it comes around so quickly. My next race is only in about four weeks and that's a half marathon, burnham Beach half marathon, a favourite of mine, which I've done ever since I was a kid, and that's coming around ever so quickly. And I am getting a little bit worried now because I know within myself when I can go out and run 6, 10, 13 miles, but it's not happening.
Speaker 1:I tried to go out for a run this morning. Yes, I did get out the door, which is the main thing. But even somebody like me, who's passionate about running and been running marathons for years, I struggled. I just for some reason it, you know, even though it's my day off today, it just wasn't in me to run today, and I know when I can run around. And it wasn't just a case of, you know, I gave it a good shot, almost up to half a mile, but it was just nothing in the tank.
Speaker 1:And sometimes it's better to know when to fold and when to hold. And you know, I'm more experienced enough to know the difference between oh, I'm lazy, I can't be bothered and between the fact that my body just hasn't got it in me at the moment and I'm hoping that will come back soon. For me it can come back pretty quick. I can suddenly go out and do 10, 30 miles, 20 miles, but I'm just hoping it is. And I say that's just life. You know, it's just life. It happens to us all. You know we've got other commitments, we've got other pressures in life and that. But for me, running is what helps me with those pressures. But then when these pressures are pushing down on my running, on my training, it is difficult and that's why training for any race is. It's hard.
Speaker 1:And you know, this summer's going so quickly, and certainly here in the UK we've not had much of a summer and yet it just flies by. Um, you know, the schools are broken up now, so it's, you know, five or six weeks of the kids being off and as soon as they go back, that's it, we're into autumn, winter again. So I really need to, I guess, to find my mojo. You know it happens to us all. You know I'm telling you how to motivate you guys. I need to find my mojo to get back up there, to get back up running.
Speaker 1:I'm still confident for the burnham beach staff marathon, not looking at a pb, but I'm sure I can run it and compete it. You know, technically I'm not injured. I'm just having to get back after this gout attack which is completely taking out me on the cold as well. But I'm not making any excuse. I need to get back out there and do a few runs, just any runs, if I can just like do a 10 miler to do most of the 30 miles. I'm on the race day that you know that three miles will come. In fact, at the burnham beach half marathon you do a 10k as well, where you do two laps for the half marathon or one lap for the 10k. But um, it's too late now. I've put down for the half marathon but.
Speaker 1:But I've run so many 10Ks this year I want to do another half marathon. I think my last was in Reading. I've already had to miss a marathon this year because I injured earlier on in the year, but I did the Reading half. So, yeah, and a few 10Ks. So I really want to do this Burnham Beach. And if it is sunny, they've got a swimming pool you can use afterwards as well. So fingers crossed for the weather and I know the course really well, so it's one that my late nan always liked.
Speaker 1:You know it's the one before for winter, which comes on later in the year, in September. So I really need to get my butt into gear, get my mind going and recover, get a good diet going and get moving again. There's me telling you guys how to get. Get my mind going and recover, get a good diet going and get moving. Again, there's me telling you guys how to get moving. I now need to tell myself to get moving. So yeah, fingers crossed I recover soon and get moving, get my training back on gear.
Speaker 1:I'd say only four weeks and you know, the last week you can't really do a lot, so it's really cutting it fine, but I'm confident I can do it. I mean, watch this space, I will do it. I'm glad I've got this episode back online here. As I say, it's probably a couple of days later. I tried to do an episode one every week but, as I say, it's a little bit late because I've had problems with my computer. Now I can start recording again and hopefully bring you some better news in the next episode. So, yeah, we'll see how it goes. Anyway, whatever you're doing if you're out, walking, running, training, for whatever I wish you well, good luck with all your training and, yeah, and hopefully on my next episode I'll have better news about how my own training is going. So, yeah, I'll leave it there, I'll sign off for now and I'll see you on the next episode of 30 years of running marathons. Thank you.
