My First and Probably my Last Brighton Marathon

It is now two weeks since I ran the Brighton Marathon. I always regarded myself as fairly fit as I have been training for the last 19 years in one form or another.
In the mid nineties I was intrigued with the whole body building thing. I lived in London and worked in a large city health club near Tower Hill. I was the only female commuting to work on the tube, sifting enthusiastically through Muscle and Fitness Magazine instead of Cosmopolitan or Company like a “normal” young lady. As I have become more mature (ha ha) I realised that 45 degree leg presses with 25kg plates either side were not going to make my already inherited footballer legs look any more attractive, so now I manage and maintain my genetic frame by mixing it up and doing a bit of everything to stay in shape and keep my lean muscle tone. Read more…