… 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 …
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 …
It’s hard to believe a whole year has gone by but here I am back in the swing of training for my second London marathon. I have to admit I’m not as excited about the training part as I was last year. The memory of long hot runs at 4am …
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 …
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 …
It’s eighty four days until race day. I’m not shitting myself as much as I was last week but I’m still worried how the hell I will run 42.2km without fainting/vomiting/lying in the gutter and crying/dying. I’m running over 40km each week now and over half of that is in …
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 …