Michelle’s Marathon Madness: The Good And Bad Of Running A Marathon

So I actually managed to do it. I got round the 26.2 miles. I did it in neither an impressive, attractive or sexy way but the main thing is I did it, and now ladies and gentlemen I am ready to share with you the good and the bad of running a marathon… Good things [...]

The Queeried Interview Off: Marathon Running Michelle Vs Baby Billie

So the LA Marathon took place on 21st March and whilst Queeried’s Michelle thought she might die during it (and apparently she felt close to it about 4 or 5 times) she did actually manage to stumble over the line in just under 4 hours 30 mins. Now running a marathon can be something of [...]

Michelle’s Marathon Madness: How To Slowly Drain Yourself Of Your Blood Supply Without Noticing

There’s been a bit of a recurring theme to these LA marathon columns recently – snow, and I’m not quite finished with it yet. Remember how after the first lot of snow I said I realised that wasn’t proper snow but the second one was? Well it snowed again and I can confirm, and I [...]

Michelle’s Marathon Madness : Wobbles, Vomiting, Machine Guns And Lots Of Snow

I may come across a confident young thing, okay that’s pushing it, a confident thing. Fine fine, a thing then… but I have a confession to make. I’ve now entered a period of having regular wobbles about the marathon (take wobbles to mean continual gulping, rapid tapping of my fingers against surfaces and me suddenly [...]

Michelle’s Marathon Madness: Snow, Ice, Nerves And Inadequate Planning

So there are now just 75 days to the LA Marathon and I’m as far from my blasé everything is going to be fine stage as is humanly possible. In fact I’ve entered the stage where I go pale and feel the need to take rather deep breaths and tap my fingers dramatically just thinking [...]

Michelle’s Marathon Madness : I Got The Running Blues

Read any marathon guide and they’ll say there’s a honeymoon period when you first start training for a marathon when you can’t get enough and each additional mile comes with a new high that you just can’t get enough of. What they also say is that it’s likely you will then you will hit the [...]

Michelle’s Marathon Madness : Funny Shoes And Overly Polite Squirrels

So there are now 19 weeks before I will be running the LA Marathon, and seeing as just about any running plan out there say you need 16 weeks I’m still in the in the “oh it’ll going to be fine” stage. By the time there are only 16 weeks left, however, I will obviously [...]

Michelle’s Marathon Mission: The How Not To Get Started With Marathon Running Guide

Ranking alongside my agreement to attend a three week conference in Germany to speak on the environment policies on my local borough that I knew nothing about (alongside speaking none of the languages of the other countries attending), as one of the most stupid decisions of my life, was my offer to run a charity marathon [...]