Marathon Training – Day 16

Forget what I said yesterday about badminton matches not being good enough fitness training. Tonight my team had another badminton match, and I was run ragged and wrecked at the end. Job well done. Sadly, again it wasn’t good news for our team. We lost again, this time 6-2. It’s fairly frustrating, because we’re not… [Continue Reading]

Marathon Training – Day 8

Tuesday 8 November Today’s training was just a badminton session, and it didn’t go well. I play for the Trinity badminton club, and we have a match next week, so we were practising for that. Unfortunately not all the team turned up, so it was a reduced number of players and games. In an hour… [Continue Reading]

Marathon Training – Day 3

If it’s possible to tell how much exercise you’ve done from the smell of your T-Shirt 8 hours after the exercise (and I believe it is) then today was a very successful, if particularlty smelly, day. Firstly, I got through 24 Hours without having a custard cream, which I’ve you read Days 1 & 2… [Continue Reading]