Went out this morning for an 8 mile run. After 3 miles, I start to feel a pain in a toe on my left foot. I decide to finish after 4 miles, expecting to see some rubbing on my toe or something.
Nope. I take my shoe off, and the end of my sock is red from blood. A small stone, barely visible had managed to get into my sock and had wedged itself between my toes. After I"d cleaned the blood away, there"s nothing to see except a minor scratch. Bloody annoying though.
No pain - no gain eh
Really admire you for this Dan, I could never do it even when younger - so hats off -- just do it in the time and get those double/treble ups as well
Yes, the pressure"s on now from those promises of what they"ll donate if I do it in under 4 hours, or under 3 hours 45 minutes, or even bloody 3 hours 30 minutes.
Anyway, I got some new running shoes today.
http://www.prodirectrunning.com/prodinfo.asp?DPID=RUN-401-002-094&DEPT=401&BRAND=2&SS=1Will be trying them out tomorrow morning.
The ones I already have are fairly light, but these are like slippers (but easier to run in).
I got a running magazine thrown in with my trainers, and was just flicking through it and reading about Haile Gebrselassie"s marathon times (his world record is 2hrs 3mins 59secs!) - and they are frighteningly quick. He always has a smile on his face as well - even when he had to drop out of the London Marathon a year or two ago.
In the same magazine I was reading about Nell McAndrew. She"s an excellent marathon runner - her PB is something like 3hrs 10mins. So she"s wayyyy quicker than me - and far better looking as well. She did it in 3hrs 22mins last year so if she"s running it this year and looking at a 3hrs 30min time, she might be my ideal pacemaker...
