May 4th 2015. 6.2 miles. Home

After a great weekend away with old friends, I now have to acknowledge that the marathon is this month. In fact it’s less than four weeks away. This is of grave concern for me, especially as I am yet to run further than 16 miles. Went out this evening shortly after getting home. Such was my enthusiasm when I realised my knee seemed to be bearing up, I ran far too fast (for me – it would be everyone else’ warm up pace) and then had to stop and walk. I’m not sure the burger and chips and trio of…

May 2nd 2015. 2.5 miles. Ellie

https://youtu.be/Fwn6rIa722E We are in Centre Parcs with lots of our lovely friends from University. This morning I went for a teeny run with Ellie and Jamie. Needed to tentatively test my knee (fingers crossed OK so far) and they wanted to come too. This is Ellie’s first time speaking on my blog (she was in the Edinburgh montage), but she has already appeared in her dad Ewan’s (of the amusing lost on the canal video) blog.