Day 10: Back to the Grind (and Snoozing Through Alarms!)
It’s Day 10 of my London Marathon 2025 training, and I’ve hit what can only be described as a wall of reality – the sort of wall that doesn’t politely step aside when you approach but stands there smirking, arms crossed, daring you to wake up at 5:15 am. After two blissful weeks of holiday mode – late nights, leisurely mornings, and alarm clocks gathering dust – my body decided to stage a mutiny against the return of discipline. The Alarm That Wasn’t In fact, the mutiny was so effective that I managed to sleep right through my alarm and woke up at the far more civilised hour of 6 am. Clearly, my subconscious had concluded that holiday lie-ins weren’t quite ready to vacate the premises. Still, I’m counting this as a minor victory: I did wake up eventually, and that’s half the battle, right? A Gentle Start Mercifully, the training gods smiled upon me today, serving up a 22-minute recovery run on the schedule. After the shock of returning to early mornings (or not-so-early, in today’s ca...