Greater Manchester Marathon – the difficult second marathon

Oh boy. Marathon number 2 was a toughie. I was feeling quietly confident about my training. Everything seemed to be going so well. Until my taper. I didn’t get injured or anything drastic, but it felt like everything was conspiring against my sub 4.30 attempt. First, forgetting my sports bra on holiday in Belgium didn’t…

Liverpool half marathon – 3rd time around

2 weeks ago I ran the Liverpool half marathon for the 3rd time. It was a last minute decision, I entered the week before as I had a major case of FOMO (fear-of-missing-out) as so many of my running club were running it and I had an 18 mile run planned for that day anyway…