After returning from Tanzania it still took a few days before I started marathon training again and at the end of week 17 I did an easy-ish 3 mile run before the final 4 week countdown to the Dublin Marathon! Thankfully during this final stint of training I was staying in Dubai with no work […]
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Through weeks 11 to 16 of marathon training I was all over the place… quite literally and sick 🙁 Week 11 saw over 28 miles with a treadmill run, 2 outdoor runs in Dubai and a 16 mile long run around the 400m indoor track at Dubai Sports World… what a joy that was 😉 […]
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Week 4 of marathon training and after struggling with the heat on Friday mornings long run I ran in the evenings instead, this is also when we travelled to the UK for summer holidays and would be a test to see if training continued when holiday mode was on… Sunday 2nd – Rest day Monday 3rd – because […]
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Here we are with week 3 of my beginner marathon training plan, and as we have officially signed up for the marathon, dedication to training is ever more important. My aim this week was to have all my runs in the morning before sunrise, which I did but some were a struggle towards the end […]
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During week 2 of marathon training, Sunday was a travel day and I arrived in Hong Kong at 5am local time, I was planning to go to the gym when I arrived at the hotel, while waiting for my room, but I slept just 30 minutes on the overnight flight (despite a free upgrade to […]
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