Blisters
Top tip for podiatric happiness - do not wear your beloved-but-worn-out running shoes to do a half-marathon. Wear your less-meaningful-but-not-knackered running shoes instead.
Ran half marathon today - and now have enormous blister on my big toe. It developed at about 9 miles so the last 4 miles were like running barefoot on broken glass. Ouch.
Not a bad time (2hrs 1 min 5 secs) but slower than my last half. That is the problem with doing more than one half marathon. With the first one, I was just glad to finish it and not hurl. Now I have to try to improve my times. And, gallingly, a friend who also ran it beat me by 1 minute. And it was her first one. Not fair. But the last couple of miles were a real killer and I just had nothing left.
I won't be in a hurry to do this one again. There were no toilets at the start (WTF?), the roads weren't closed so there were busses and trucks thundering past, no sponges at the drinks stations and at the end, they had run out of medium t-shirts, so I had to have a large, which sucks when you are kinda short. That does really piss me off actually - OK, I might not be that fast, but I still ran just as bloody far as the first people home and I deserve at least few claps and a t-shirt that fits.
Next one is Eyam which I have done before. Beautiful scenery, bloody big hills, top-notch organisation.
Ran half marathon today - and now have enormous blister on my big toe. It developed at about 9 miles so the last 4 miles were like running barefoot on broken glass. Ouch.
Not a bad time (2hrs 1 min 5 secs) but slower than my last half. That is the problem with doing more than one half marathon. With the first one, I was just glad to finish it and not hurl. Now I have to try to improve my times. And, gallingly, a friend who also ran it beat me by 1 minute. And it was her first one. Not fair. But the last couple of miles were a real killer and I just had nothing left.
I won't be in a hurry to do this one again. There were no toilets at the start (WTF?), the roads weren't closed so there were busses and trucks thundering past, no sponges at the drinks stations and at the end, they had run out of medium t-shirts, so I had to have a large, which sucks when you are kinda short. That does really piss me off actually - OK, I might not be that fast, but I still ran just as bloody far as the first people home and I deserve at least few claps and a t-shirt that fits.
Next one is Eyam which I have done before. Beautiful scenery, bloody big hills, top-notch organisation.