Episode 3: Training Run Tales

it was and it was something that's not happened for a little while because you've been training um is that you crewed me which was nice um so i i Had 20 miles on the cards today.

I'm doing Big Pilgrimage Marathon next weekend, and this is all kind of building up towards doing Big Sky 50K Ultra mid-late September.

If you've never heard of Big Feet events, I highly recommend checking them out.

Especially if you like those slightly longer distances, they're super inclusive and always amazing routes.

And yeah, sort of anything from the half marathon upwards really is very cool.

So yeah, I'm in for a couple of those.

And

this is a big kind of autumn for you, I guess, because you have gone a few years without... chaining together big back to back big events like this

yeah I mean I don't normally I say I don't normally I haven't I had a three year break from marathon running because I tore my hip flexor it was a 50 to 60% of the fibres torn at which point I had to have three months completely off running and And I just completely fell out of love with long distance running after that.

I think where I'd lost all my fitness, both speed and endurance in that time.

And I just couldn't, I was getting frustrated that I couldn't bring it back as quickly as I'd lost it.

It just feels really unfair that you don't just sort of keep it when you've got it.

Um, and then, yeah, I just had a three month, three months, three years out of marathon and ultra running.

I

mean, you've come, you've come from a long way in the last year, January 1st, 1st of January, 2025.

And you said, do you think it's outrageous that I could do easily 10 K and which was in mid to late March.

It was

later than that.

Was it later in January?

Yeah, it was the end of January, I think.

It

was about eight weeks.

I think it was six weeks even.

I think it was, can I do easily 10K in an hour? An hour.

And that was kind of my target was to get back what felt, I mean, it is a long distance.