On 13th October, I took part in the Chicago Marathon which was my 19th marathon overall and 14th World Marathon Major. I had previous run the 2018 Chicago Marathon where I had aimed for a 3:20 but fell short running 3:41. This time, when I signed up I had a big scary goal of attempting to run under 2hrs 50min that would have been over … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 RACE RECAP
I’ve made it to the final two weeks of this training block! Thank god for that! It hasn’t been the training block I had hoped for and my race day goal has shifted from chasing sub 2:50 to making it to the finish line. That said, no training block is perfect and we often have obstacles to over come and adapt to. Adapting is what … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 TRAINING: WEEK 15 & 16
Continuing my new trend of running a brand activation shakeout run instead of paying the $40-$50 to run the pre-marathon 5k shakeout runs, I headed over to the Chicago Lululemon store to run their shakeout run. It was a toss up between Lululemon and Tracksmith for me, but having run with Tracksmith in Boston and Berlin this year I wanted to try something different. Plus, … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 LULULEMON SHAKEOUT RUN
It’s race weekend once again, the final race of 2024 and it’s a big one. The 2024 Chicago Marathon. This is the race I had been training all summer for, gone through the highs and many lows of this training block but I am here. I flew out on Friday 11th Oct from Manchester via Dublin with Aer Lingus arriving into O’Hare at 2pm. Having … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 BIB PICK UP & EXPO
Final two weeks leading into the Berlin Marathon aka the last long run before Chicago. Week 11 & 12 turned into a struggle after making great progress in weeks 9 & 10. In the last update I had picked up a niggling hip pain which wasn’t causing major pain but it just ached in the latter stages of longer runs and the next day. I … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 TRAINING: WEEK 13 & 14
On 29th September I took part in the Berlin Marathon, my 18th marathon overall and 13th Abbott World Marathon Major. This was also my second time running Berlin after the 2017 Berlin Marathon was my 1st time running a World Marathon Major and third marathon. Ever since then Berlin has had a very special place in my heart, not specifically because of the race or … Continue reading BERLIN MARATHON 2024 RACE RECAP
I think I may have re-found some form and a little consistency in week 9 and 10 after being very hit and miss since returning from Egypt in week 7. Even week 10 saw me running back to back sessions and double run days which resulted in an aborted long run on the Saturday but at least that week I got back on track by … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 TRAINING: WEEK 11 & 12
Race weekend once again!! This time I headed out to Berlin for my 18th marathon and 13th world marathon major. I last ran the Berlin Marathon in 2017 where the expo was held at a different venue and I didn’t write a post about the expos back then and as I am getting an old boy now the memory isn’t what it once was (it’s … Continue reading BERLIN MARATHON 2024 BIB PICK UP & EXPO
Before the 2024 Berlin Marathon I headed down to the Tracksmith pop-up store for their Saturday shakeout run. Usually, well, up until 2023 I would always run in the big organised 5k shakeout runs, such as the Generali 5k or the BAA 5k / Abbott Dash to the Finisher, Chicago 5k… you get the picture. You pay $40, $50 to run a 5k, get a … Continue reading BERLIN MARATHON 2024 TRACKSMITH SHAKEOUT RUN
After week 7 & 8 was a mixed bag of a good week followed by a bad week where I went down with a cold and ended up missing a few days and then aborting the long run, I was hoping to get back on track from week 9. I have decided to increase the mileage between now and Chicago, taking a small risk pushing … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 TRAINING: WEEK 9 & 10
The Cheshire Runner. 