London Marathon 2014

Right. That's another marathon ticked off and after 16 weeks of great training I went into the race with a IT band problem and both knees being held together by velcro. Having nearly pulled out of the race on the Friday before I was delighted to finish and raise over £1,200 for the Brain Tumour Charity. Stats as follows:

• Finish time: 4:20:51
• 5km: 28:08
• 10km: 56:33
• 15km: 1:24:35
• 20km: 1:52:35
• Half: 1:58:39
• 25km: 2:22:11
• 30km: 2:55:06
• 35km: 3:39:26
• 40km: 4:05:38

Place: 16,696
AC: 1,116

In summary first half fine, second half just pleased to have kept going. But no excuses as I had trained really well right up until the Saturday the week before and was looking at a 3:55 time or thereabouts had I not had the problem.

Looking now at my knee I am a bit surprised I finished at all. The IT band velcro thingy stopped the IT problem but caused the knee cap to malfunction and so I am now looking at 3-6 weeks of rest before I do anything else. Still I would not have missed it for the world.

Once I am back in training Ride London and Windsor tri to look forward to.

London Marathon 2014 charity

The last long run is this weekend and I am now running for the Brain Tumour Charity. It was an easy decision and anyone who knows me well will understand why. The target is £520 or £20 per mile which fingers crossed I can raise via Just Giving.

The training for a marathon has been tough no two ways about it. In fact it is easier mentaly to train for a triathlon and I need to get back on my bike asap after London and prepare for the Windsor tri in June and Ride London Classic 100 in August.

I also need to get back in the pool but all that can wait until after April 13.    

Week 5

A week into the January Dryathon and going well and 5 weeks into Hal Higdon Intermediate 2 training plan for VLM and 23km just done. So far so good but not wanting to tempt fate...

Running the 2:00:00 pace team at Reading - confirmed this week. Should be a nice warm up for London.

And might get a place at IM Switzerland.

Now, must get into the pool this week and kick start swim training.