Running and other musings

Month: April 2020

Not the Boston Marathon

Post author By Stephen Dawson
Post date 22 April 2020
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Sunday 19 April should have dawned with me in a Travelodge near Boston, Lincolnshire, ready to drive the final distance to the town to arrive about 8am ready for the marathon later in the morning. Instead, I rose at 6am at home, had a banana for breakfast, and Lucy and I left home at about […]

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Marathon preparations

Post author By Stephen Dawson
Post date 18 April 2020
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So, in 2018, I stuck to my beginner’s training plan, but I was probably too ambitious about my target pace, and more problematically I had knee niggles going into my first marathon, and they duly manifested themselves a little over half-way through the London Marathon, and I had to walk a good deal and go […]