So it’s looking more and more likely I won’t be able to make the London marathon this year. An injury sustained about six weeks before the start day has curtailed my training and lasted long enough to take me up to the week before the race. The timing could not have been worse, it was too early for me to start my tapering and too late for the injury to get better and carry on with training. With this in mind I have resigned myself to not being able to run and watching it from the sidelines. Probably just as well, it’s a long way!
I’ve entered the London marathon a number of times via the ballot but have never been successful, I’m thinking maybe seven times in all? And typically, the first time I did get in, injury has prevented me from running. OK I’ve never trained for the marathon so intensely before so that probably added to the injury but I do still feel an element of bad luck that the worst injury I’ve ever had is just before the biggest race of my life.