Not marathon material – Marathon J

Avid readers will know that my blogs have been more about excuses for not training rather than the results of my training, so with a week to go I headed to France for a last minute detox and final race preparations.

I decided to detoxify on fruit

So that was grape, specifically from the Loire combined with Fruits de Mer

On Sunday morning I embarked on my last long run, heading out of St Malo towards a Le Minihic, the way out was hard and I did not really notice my fellow runners, I followed the beach until after about 30 minutes the sea wall ended abruptly in the side of a cliff stopping me in my tracks, I figured that had to be Le Minihic so it was time to turn round.

The way back was truly amazing, firstly I saw Santa Clause on roller blades, honestly, ok he was in disguise but he was fat, with red cheeks and a long white beard, I’d recognize him anywhere. Next I came across Yoda meditating in the beach, next to with Bruce Lee doing Kata, closer to the walled city the kids from fame (still in their 80’s leg warmers) were jogging and jumping and finally I ran past a guy who was at least 105 years old stretching before a run. The weirdest run in the last 5 months.

I've no idea why they have planted trees on the beach, must be some French custom maybe their version of may pole dancing?

Having finished my run I crashed on a sun lounger by the hotel pool and ordered a bottle of wine to rehydrate, upon which my wife declared “You’re not really marathon material are you!”

The rest of the this week has been a write off with work so I’ve taken the tapering to it’s extreme and stopped altogether.

I’m looking forward to an awesome day

Marathon J