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Feeling better today and thanks Emily and keep going Paul.

Previous entries

• Lumbar spinal stenosis

• Pushing the limits

• Creaking and groaning now.

• Some thoughts to Emily re meeting up before the race

• Week 12 - pains all over and frozen peas down my trousers - soya problem

• Facebook

• The sun has got his hat on

• Lots of great stuff going on - keep going Paul

• New Half Marathon pb!

• Knocked about a bit now but cheerful

• Training going well and family problems carrying on

• Excellent blog and not even mine

• District 9

• 8 miles on the High Peak Trail

• Family problems and getting back to full fitness

• Haiti

• Hanging in there

• Taking a gamble and running

• Injured but not downheartened also thanks to Emily

• Thank You Stephie Macdonald plus a sad and comic tale

• Oops - I have got a dose of bronchitis

• Coughing and sore throats - ploughing on

• Pushing on in the bitter winds

• Coping in the icy weather

• Christmas Day 2009 and two years of blogging - 14 weeks left of marathon buildup

• Running in the wind and hail

• 20 miles wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

• Cold winds and Christmas

• Swine flu vaccine, tired out but 15 miles today!

• One good day one bad - what will happen? - get well soon Paul - more blogs please

• Back to 90% after a month's illness

• Success in the VLM Project

• Keep going Paul Button

• Battling back

• Down with flu - oh dear!

• 13 miles and still going

• Still sick and injured

• Ten gentle miles this week.

• Injured and sick - all halt

• 64 or 94?

• 3 miles round Stanley Park Blackpool

• Up to 16.5 miles

• Up to 15 miles

• Building up and lots happening

• I really wanted to give up on this run

• Pushing the boundaries

• The Miracle

• Aching, weariness and recovery

• Destressing and running past cows

• 70 miles and 70k plus a ramble

• Getting stronger and in a bubble

• Struggling at 2 miles

• Backache

• Living in Thailand

• Great progress - 9 miles and first donation to the new fund

• The 2010 VLM Campaign

• The long hard slog

• Feeling pressure but strong

• Grafting hard

• Oh I feel very weary but there is hope yet

• Starting a new campaign

• Yipee - we have reached the minimum target

• Ps OAP and bandy legs

• Elation and pain: 4 hours 39 minutes 8 secs.

• 4 days to go and panic is setting in

• 6 Days to go! Physio says OK

• Getting tough now - Taper madness

• Tuning the engine

• First taper week - feeling good

• Pushing the boundaries

• 405 miles in 16 weeks - supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

• Excited and determined

• Getting oh so close

• 20 miles - good heart - dodgy hip - bladder problems

• Going well - and in the last training month

• The Great North West Run - Blackpool Half Marathon 22 Feb 2009

• Six weeks of hard training left

• Third of the five 20 mile runs

• Back from the peak district and seven weeks training left

• 20 miles four hours and hello zombieland

• Progress on all fronts

• Thanks to Mary and Peter

• Running in the subzero winter - 20 miles - fundraising guilt!

• Christmas day 2008

• Churning out the mile repeats

• A battling 9 miles

• Ridiculous run

• 16.5 miles and still going

• Shock admission - shed turned into gym

• Still going strong

• Good progress - and all is not lost

• Major running problem

• Celine Dion - shock admission - I like her music

• 15 miles in the cold November air

• My treadmill has blown up

• First donation of the campaign

• Flat feet!

• Up to 14 miles

• Public fear and private suffering

• Detective story

• Bent legs and collapsing feet

• Scary back problem

• Five miles of pain

• Life and death

• Gathering strength - exciting and slightly funny blog

• Hit by a bug

• Cross training and feeling good

• Back over 20 miles

• Travelling and training

• Back on serious training

• Start on the fundraising

• Back training

• Two worlds

• Bronchitis strikes again

• Starting the training again

• PS

• 28889th! and so many people to thank

• Seven days to go

• Lynne the physio

• Taper stress

• Taper Craziness

• Please read this

• I need to recover now

• 14 miles and a sore hip

• Yes it did snow

• Will it snow?

• 24 days to go

• Blog success and feeding your face

• 28 miles in training - the big one!

• 29 days to go

• Oh no - 10 stone 5!

• Two days of blowouts

• Eight mile repeats

• Progress with weight

• Tired legs

• Woo hoo 2 hours 17

• Pulled both ways

• Liverpool Half looms

• Mile repeats

• What does a a one pound per mile donation buy?

• Training building up

• One week to the Liverpool Half Marathon

• The fund is really motoring now

• 500 pounds!

• A heartbreaking day of contrasts

• 24 miles

• 42 emails

• Battling with the dodgy leg and raising the money

• Working on the fundraising

• A gentle jog in the cold dusk air

• Grandad John meets with baby Sam

• Right leg shorter than the rest

• More dosh

• Lots of effort but no dosh yet

• Oh wow people are reading my blog

• 12 miles today

• Hill work and feeling like a beaten up old boot

• Mile repeats

• 20 miles and a walking Zombie

• Twenty miles in the morning (we hope!)

• Pulled muscle and sore back

• Back from London

• 10 miles today and sticking with Galloway

• 22 miles this week and painful backside

• Bad weather and a clothes malfunction

• Day off training today

• I woke up this morning feeling like poo

• Fundraising breakthrough

• Kenya

• Heh I go to sleep and £72 is donated!

• Things are looking up

• Dog tired today

• 17 miles and a sore bottom

• I get tired after lunch

• On the day I brave the cold and rain

• New Year Holiday and battling with the cold, bad chests and injuries

• Fighting the flab

• New treadmill needed

• Boxing day

• Christmas day