Inspiration

Just back from visiting Luc, who has set his sight on running his first ever marathon, in April in Antwerp. Luc runs easily (I'm sure he disagrees but I know the vast difference between us). He does not really have a training plan for the big 42.195 and was wondering if he should be doing any real long trainings, like over two hours. Thing is, it does not matter that much in his case probably; he'll just get going and not stop until he finishes.

Luc is one of those runners that fill me with envy.

My running got a little bit easier in the meantime. I asked my osteopath on Monday night to look at my left ankle which has seriously restricted movement since I had a skiing accident three years ago in the Jura. My nice path stretched, bent, cracked, massaged the ankle and did other mysterious things. When I left his practice, I almost fell over as I was not used to a semi-normal range of movement any more. And today, doing my regular 8.1k run, I finished 3.5 minutes faster than the previous two times. So I'm trying to schedule two more sessions before the Paris half marathon in early April.