Today in four weeks is the London Marathon. All running advice that grabbed my attention seemed to stress one thing: Do you last long run today. Very important, very, very important. Not easy when, you have pain in your foot, not really knowing what it is and whether the last long run before the marathon might push you over the edge and becomes your last long run for months or even a year. Have been there, that’s why I am…
Got up this morning, went down the stairs and suddenly felt this piercing pain in the ball of my left foot again. It first appeared on Tuesday during my very light and easy lunch time run. The same day when the strange pain on the top of the same foot appeared during a very light and easy bicycle ride to work. WHAT IS GOING ON? I tried to be good this time, stopped running, made an appointment with a foot…
I can’t quite remember at which point I thought running the London Marathon is a good idea. Now with the event coming closer and closer I’m getting equally more and more terrified. Today is the 22th of March, which means there are only 30 days to go. I got an appointment with a foot specialist for tomorrow. It’s not bad, but when I move, walk, run it gets slightly worse, which is worrying. But luckily the cause is bigger than…
I finally found a cure for my chronically hurting Achilles tendons (or my Achilles Tendinitis, as I learned from several running websites). After 10 months of soreness it finally seems to be over. The cause? My inflexible calve muscles. Only a week of serious stretching and massaging (deep into the knotted calve tissue) has done the trick. Just in time to experience completely new pain: some kind of burning pain on top op my left foot and rather bizarre some…
Got a new mattress for the single bed room. But what to do with the old one? It was still in good condition, but it was a bit to hard and springy and not really my idea of a good night’s sleep. Before calling the council to get it collected, I gave Gumtree a shot, mentioning my fundraising in the ad and that the money would go to the NSPCC. Two days later it was sold and gone. Smooth and simple. Win-win! Let’s…
I always thought of Snaresbrook as a strange name, a bit menacing and the perfect setting for some ugly stories you don’t want to know about. Well, it happened that I googled this place to get the spelling right when posting this atmospheric picture of Snaresbrook Crown Court of my long-run the other day. Coincident or not, but apart from the right spelling I did stumble upon a story that I could have done without: Contaminated (urine) food at the court canteen. Not quite sure…
Finding a free shower after my bi-weekly lunch time run is usually not a problem. But today I had to climb up to the 8th to find one. And I got rewarded with this view. Well, it doesn’t look that great from this angle, but I also wanted to get shower sign on the picture 🙂