13 in 13 Blog – Week 5

Recovery, recovery, recovery. That is the main highlight of this week! Oh, and eating a lot, resting a lot and feeling sorry for Danny – if you don’t know why look at the pics from the last marathon.

Dan Lewi

Week 5 of the challenge

Our physio Mark told us at the beginning on the challenge that the most important part of our 13 marathons in 13 months challenge will be the week after each race. Apparently this is the key moment in our recovery – get this wrong and we will not be able to get to the start line of each race. His advice was to put the feet up, relax, go for a few walks and to stretch the legs. With this ringing in our ears Danny and I have really done very little training since the Luton marathon.

If you have read the event summary from the Luton marathon you will order accutane online have seen that we managed to get in just before the cut off. At the beginning a 5 hour time limit seemed easy – but with the Brentwood marathon having only been 3 weeks before by half way our legs were starting to burn. I’m not sure if that is a good sign for the next race but then again I don’t think we took much notice of Mark’s advice. We probably over did the training between the last two marathons and I for one will not be making that mistake again! Instead a few short runs followed by some stretching for an hour or so will be on the agenda next week. Although Danny is not one to stretch (by his own admission) we’re hoping this will have changed by the end of the challenge!

You can still join us at any of the upcoming marathons in the new year. Check out the 13 in 13 marathon schedule which shows you the marathons we are planning on doing. If an of them interest you then please get in touch using the contact us form.

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Event details

Date	October 2011 – November 2012
Event name	13 in 13
Location	All over the UK
Next marathon	10th December 2011 – Saxon Shore marathon
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