Day 37: A Sluggish Sunday and the Importance of Listening to Your Body
Well, here we are at Day 37 of the London Marathon 2025 training plan, and today’s run was definitely one for the books—though perhaps not for the reasons I might have hoped. After a fantastic late night out enjoying Bat Out of Hell the musical, I was up bright and early for my Sunday run. However, unlike many of the runs I've had recently, today just didn't go as planned. When Every Step Feels Like a Marathon Usually, I find that I can shake off any tiredness after a few minutes, but today it felt like I was running through treacle. Not a smooth, golden syrupy kind of treacle, but the thick, sticky, feet-dragging black treacle that suggests someone may have accidentally upended an entire vat of it onto the pavement. I pushed through to finish the run, but it was a struggle from start to finish, and I just focused on putting one foot in front of the other until I got back to the front door. It’s a strange sensation when a run doesn’t flow, and you have to work so hard just to ...