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Marathon Training

Perserverance

… Another running story I’m afraid! Well I did it. I ran the Canberra Marathon last weekend and came home with a nice tidy personal best time. I am absolutely thrilled. What a wonderful feeling it is when you put in the hard yards and are rewarded  for it. I can …

The Gall of the Universe

I’ve had one of those really crap weeks. You know the type – traffic fine, smashed iPhone, forget to turn your wi-fi on and use up all your data with 15 days to go type weeks. I thought it would end with that but obviously things on Planet Stephanie can deteriorate …

Marathon Training. Round 2.

It’s been seven weeks since the London Marathon. I’m already into week two of training for the Sydney Marathon in september and I’m not really sure how I feel about doing it all again. The weeks between training plans have been lovingly filled with nice gentle easy runs instead of …

Marathon Training: The End

Well that’s it. Marathon training is pretty much over. On tuesday I leave for London and I can’t believe it. What a journey it has been. Juggling a hectic life with four children and training for a marathon in the middle of a Sydney summer has been hard work but so …

Marathon Training – Chapter 1

In 129 days I’ll be running the London Marathon. I can’t tell you how good it feels to write that. How amazed I am that I’ve come this far with what started out as walking along the Thames in London to shed a bit of baby weight (I’m not sure …