Pulling into the home straight

Just over a fortnight to go and I'm feeling better and better. The Achilles hasn't complained despite all the stretching and strengthening exercises I'm doing with it. And in the meantime I've been rowing away like a good 'un and feeling much better for it.

I'm still mildly disappointed that I'm going to be run-walking my way around New York, but that's just this time. And I might as well enjoy the view! I've entered the London marathon, and that will give me plenty of time to get ready to run a marathon with a good time target. For now I'll be content to finish.

And the distance target's still there. Between serious sessions on the rowing machine and occasional light jogs on the treadmill, I've added a further 21 miles to the total. Not huge, but still progress in the right direction. I'm still planning on hitting that magic 500 mile target.

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Cheers

Tony

_{Tony Quinlan
Chief Storyteller
Narrate}

132 miles down, 368 to go.

Back on track...

Finally, the all clear comes through on the Achilles tendon. It's been a few weeks of ultrasound with Kevan, but it's now looking good. Four weeks to go.

So, a new fitness programme. The old running programme went out the window and will, by now, be swooping with albatrosses somewhere over the Pacific. The new programme, thanks to Rachel Armstrong at Personal Best, is mostly general fitness with some running.

Any hopes I had of running neatly all the way around have disappeared. I'm going to be in run-walk mode now. And I'm going to enjoy every moment.

The 500 miles? Still relevant - but some of it's going to be on the rowing machine that I'll be using for the next couple of weeks. Running 500 miles seemed to be a lot. Rowing a couple of hundred does too.

Looking good...