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Chicago Marathon Training Week 6

Chicago Marathon Training Week 6

After last week’s full on training schedule, this week I have suffered a little with exhaustion. It has unfortunately been coupled with an inability to sleep through the night – until Tom came home when I literally fell asleep whilst talking to him and zonked...
Chicago Marathon Training Essentials

Chicago Marathon Training Essentials

Garmin Forerunner 220 I trained for and ran 4 marathons with my Garmin Forerunner 305 and I LOVED it. Sadly, it didn’t love running anymore and would take ages to find satellites, became slightly erratic and had a terrible battery life. I actually threw it in the bin...

Realistically

I signed up to cycle the Ride 100 race after seeing friends complete it last year, and was really pumped for it, especially after our Cycle to Paris in May. It took on extra meaning after Esther sadly died in a cycling accident. However my knee and cycling aren’t the...
Chicago Marathon Training Week 4

Chicago Marathon Training Week 4

Wait, is this week 3 or 4? It seems to be going so quickly! Monday- 30 min weights workout at the Grand Hyatt KL gym. Tuesday- Banging headache so swapped my speedwork in favour of a swim & smoothie by the pool! Wednesday- 5 X 800m on the treadmill at 6.30 pace....
Chicago Marathon Training Week 3

Chicago Marathon Training Week 3

My jeans are fitting a little more snuggly, my trainers are feeling slightly under loved and my anxiety towards the 26.2 miles on the 11th October is increasing. Game, consider yourself being upped next week! Monday- Too hungover to move, but I did carb load like a...