Liverpool 2011 Archives - Runner's Words

Facts and figures

Posted by Seeph | Oct 22, 2011 | Liverpool 2011, Running, Seeph vs Marathon |

Marathon position: 150th Time: 3:19:07 Pace per mile: 7:32 Number of times fell over: 1 Number of times felt like crying: 18 Number of children hit by discarded water bottle: 1 Number of times I would like to see Sefton Park...

The emptiness of the non-long distance runner

Posted by Seeph | Oct 22, 2011 | Liverpool 2011, Running, Seeph vs Marathon |

So that’s that then. Summer 2011 has been and gone; a blur of grey, humid, miserable sweaty evenings, spent trudging round and round South Manchester getting myself as prepared as I possibly could to attempt, and I’m...

An enormous sense of achievement

Posted by Seeph | Oct 13, 2011 | Liverpool 2011, Running, Seeph vs Marathon |

177½ days. Or, 25.4 weeks; a shade under six months. That is the time that elapsed between entering and starting the Liverpool Marathon 2011, the “long and winding road race”. 4,260 hours to be more precise, or 255,600 minutes...

Endgame

Posted by Seeph | Oct 8, 2011 | Liverpool 2011, Running, Seeph vs Marathon |

Sunday 9th October. The date that has been etched into my brain and dominated my thoughts ever since that one glass of wine too many led to me signing up for a marathon all the way back in April. Six long, long months of...