Month: September 2015

It was truly awesome, on different levels. First, my knee did not play up. An actually quite impossible thing, considering this month’s records of aborted runs, no runs and painful runs caused by my ITB. During the Marathon I had as good as no knee pain. I did get my knee taped for the first time though. They offered it at the marathon fair. But can it make such a difference? I rather claim this as an other running miracle and…

View from my hotel room, 7am.   This is kilometre 39, so around lunch time I will hopefully be on this road running towards the finish line of this year’s Berlin Marathon. Very mixed feelings: Very excited to be part of such a mega event, but I am quite underprepared, because knee pain had been grunding my running to a hold. I now know it’s just ITB. I did do some stretches over the last days, which helped. I managed to…