I doubt I am the only person confessing to it at this time of year, but I have well and truly run myself into the ground. The irony of it being that very little actual running was involved. Where I work is generally quite conducive to a regular schedule. Engineers love routine and they hate…
Category: Over-training
Don’t Panic
How did it come to this? Yes, I am that person frantically googling exactly how long it takes to lose running fitness. Is it 3 days? 5 days? Exactly how far can you push it? I intend to find out. Not on purpose mind you. But due to a set of circumstances known as Losing Your…
Managing Monster Month
Monster Month: otherwise known as the point during marathon training where you forget why you wanted to do this because you are so tired you can’t think straight any more. I know that hitting my highest weeks of mileage is going to make me feel exhausted, there’s really no getting around that fact. While I…