Just one week to go, I’m going to keep this brief for two reasons, one,” I rest, rest, rest” makes for a pretty rubbish blog, and two, I’m so excited, I can barely sit still long enough to write anything longer than what you are about to read.

Last week’s long run of 22 miles really was the high point of my training so far. I feel excited about the race and I’m looking forward to the atmosphere. I’ve started to wonder what sort of time is possible, although, I’m aware I’ve still got to get to that start line injury free.

More Physio this week and I have done a couple of little runs just to keep things going. I have now got the correct and needed support in my trainers but my ankle is not good, after a couple of miles it is actually painful to run.

Big news this week is that I got myself to a physio and things are not good, I have damaged my left ankle (Acute Tendonitis) which as I have been running with this for a while I have made it worse and also this has led to me damaging my right knee (Patellofemoral Syndrome). The really bad news is that I have been advised not to run this week...

By the end of last week I really started to feel like I was making progress once more. This whole thing has been so unbelievably up and down, one week you can take on the world, the next you can barely manage to get out of bed!