It’s a very bleak Wednesday morning and I’ve just got back from what should have been a rehab training session, unfortunately cut short due to shooting pain. You see, for almost 7 months now I’ve been battling with a knee injury that just won’t seem to get better.

So this past weekend, I finally completed my long time goal of completing a marathon. I did it at the Manchester Marathon in a time of 03:43:57. In this blog, I’m going to go over a post op evaluation of the race and the event as a whole…

So I finished my last update having just finished a 20 mile long run, at a pace I would of been happy running my marathon at. I also mentioned that I was beginning to have some knee trouble. Well, that knee trouble may well have gotten the better of me…

The first two months of training were very sporadic, runs here and there, no real plan just running however far we felt was good enough for that day. Yes, when Gill joined me, we started to run more consistently and further each week but we still didn’t have a plan…