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Highlights of me playing football with footage as far back as 1998, aged 13 and as recent as 2016 aged 31.
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I have officially now entered the Virgin London Marathon 2018 using my privileged but well earned 'Good For Age' qualification after pondering over the decision over the last month. I entered the London Marathon 'Good For Age' this time last year but I decided to withdraw my entry due to personal reasons. I felt I had lost some of that desire to push myself and train to the same level I had done for the five previous years. If I am being honest though, it was mainly a combination of that and the fact I have had a lot of changes going on in my life over this last year and I knew I didn't have the time to train consistently. Next year will be my 6th London Marathon, 8th Marathon and I will become a 6-time 'Good For Age' marathon runner, it will most likely be my last London Marathon if I am honest, atleast in the near future. My long term ambition was to run 10 marathons, something I will probably achieve eventually I would have thought as I plan on running till I can't run anymore, but for the next several years while I concentrate on other areas of my life I don't think the marathon will be on my radar anymore. Before the rest of this year is out I just need to concentrate on getting some consistent running back into my lifestyle and fitness schedule. To start with when I am back training there is no point concentrating on my Marathon time just yet as I'm so far behind and I feel at the moment I'm past my natural physical peak. Once I'm able to train more regular and get some consistency and a routine going, the muscle memory kicks in, my form will get better and I'll start seeing some better results in training. Right now I would like to think and hope that if I get a head start in training and for now concentrate on shorter distances and getting the speed in my legs again, I hope I will be ready for around the 3 hour mark by the time it's race day next April, which is plenty of time. LEFT ACHILLES PROBLEM: My left Achilles is still sore and not 100% just yet, so I am just doing fitness and strength training with other forms of intense cardio work in the gym at the moment - hoping to be out on some light training runs soon to ease my Achilles in. It's a really frustrating injury or niggle if you want to call it that, it's a delicate area and you have to be careful with your Achilles, you don't want to snap it. It's not a bad injury to be honest, it's just a niggle but the trouble is, it is hard to rest as you are always using that Achilles tendon whether it's walking to work or stretching for something in the top kitchen cupboard at home. So frustrating. I have experience in an Achilles injury before, if you read my blogs you will probably already know, but in 2013 I injured my right Achilles. I had an overuse injury during the 2013 marathon season which was triggered whilst playing in a football match just a week after running the London Marathon. I hobbled around Leeds Half Marathon 2 weeks later then stupidly ran Edinburgh Marathon with the injury 2 weeks after that and it was one of the worse pains I've ever experienced, I have never felt like I wanted to give up ever, but I did not want a DNF to my name and quitting was not an option. I was out of action for 2-3 months after that. The pain was so bad and my Achilles was full of fibre tears, it was so bad I actually questioned whether I would be able to run properly again. You live and learn in sport and I know now that you need to rest injuries like these or they could get a lot worse, a lot more painful and if not managed or rested can cause long term damage. The Achilles is the strongest tendon in the human body, we do not want to damage it long term. By the time the London Marathon 2018 comes around it will be 2 years exactly since I have ran the marathon distance and I think that time out will have done me good. I know I don't quite have the same intense desire to push myself to my previous limits, I don't want to lie to myself but I have ambitions and goals and I am proud of my previous achievements and race times, I do want to do well and get what I would call atleast a respectable race time. My Marathon Results: (In order of fastest 1st) 1 - London Marathon 2014: 2:57:29 (aged 29) 2 - London Marathon 2015: 2:58:38 (aged 30) 3 - London Marathon 2013: 3:00:41 (aged 28) 4 - London Marathon 2016: 3:04:44 (aged 31) 5 - Edinburgh Marathon 2012: 3:04:56 (aged 27) - calf tear injury 6 - Edinburgh Marathon 2013: 3:18:06 (aged 28) - Achilles tendinopathy injury 7 - London Marathon 2012: 3:26:27 (aged 27) Check out one of my latest fitness training videos below from my gym at Clarendon Quarter living complex: FOLLOW MY SPORTS, FITNESS & SPIRITUAL JOURNEY:
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