Marathon Training – Day 45

I officially need to take a day off from training (and everything else for that matter) at this stage. I went for a swim today in the Trinity College Swimming Pool. I could only muster 20 lengths before I lost the will to live and gave up. As usual, 20 is still better than nothing,… [Continue Reading]

Marathon Training – Day 25

Dosed up to my eyeballs on Rubex for Vitamin C and all sorts of other goood shit to try and shift this bloody cold, and (said he looking for sympathy) having had a rubbish night sleep in the spare room because I couldn’t stop coughing, I headed to the squash courts for a run-around this… [Continue Reading]

Marathon Training – Day 2

Well, improving on yesterday’s fairly shambolic offering, I have actually done some exercise today. Now, I know I’m not training for a triathalon, so techincally there’s no reason for me to be swimming as part of my training, but nonetheless, that’s what I did. My logic (yes there is some there) is that the marathon… [Continue Reading]