Washing clothes! What am I talking about!!??? When in regular running the constant whirr and hum of cleaning running. My god if I leave smelly running clothes for more than 24 hours they stink to high heaven. Just thought I would mention it as it is my least favourite part of marathon training.

With regards to the marathon training. Well last sat I got the all clear to get back to running on the roads after the frustration of a weeks cardio in the gym. Got back to some speed work on Tuesday night and a 7 miler on wed with a fast 5 miler on thurs.

Thursday night I got another niggle back in my shin and struggled to sleep that evening due to aching and soreness.

I saw my physio yesterday and without boring you too much I'm back to square one again with the shin splints and back on the cross trainer for 90 mins now instead of the proposed grade valley 12 miler this morning.

All I can say is very frustrating and this injury is constantly on my mind. Physio still seems optomistic so it looks like I have another weeks trainer on the g trainer

Just sorry that I cannot make this blog a bit more exciting at present!