Anyone who organises a race to start at 8.30am is a bit mean. And when it is on the morning that the clocks go forward it’s just plain cruel. This was the Edinburgh Kilomathon, a 13.1 km run organised by the Edinburgh Marathon folk. All along the cycle path and then finished in Murrayfield Stadium which was nice. And quite fast for me too (although was still about 10 minutes behind everyone else I knew running). Left knee started playing up which is causing me some concern (usually right knee that is the problem) so I remain anxious about them…

Gosh. Didn’t realise how tired my legs were after our shenanigans at the weekend. Really slow run today but lovely sunny cool day. And I think it’s apparently a good idea to do some runs on tired legs to get them used to it as during the marathon they’ll be frankly knackered. Pictures are from the West Highland Way and the reservoir, both of which were on my route today

Wee quick run today. But what a beautiful day for a run. And my legs were still working after Wednesday which was nice too. Picture is from last year’s Tough Mudder just after I’d come out of Arctic Enema. Just psyching myself up for tomorrow’s muddy run…….

Wowsers. This is the longest run I have ever done in my whole entire life, and I was very pleased to be joined for some of it by the lovely Sophia who is the sister in charge of the Clinical Research Unit at the Beatson. I spend much of my week in CRU and it’s where we treat our patients on clinical trials. Much of the CRU, some of the staff (like Sophia) and the supporting administrative Clinical Trials Unit are funded by CRUK, the other charity I am raising money for. Today we chatted about the progress we’ve seen…