Yesterday I was excited to attend the Virgin London Marathon Meet the Experts day. It was supposed to be a full day of talks to help you with training, nutrition, fundraising, injuries etc. from people who had experts. Anyway Sam Murphy was really informative giving us practical exercises to help build strength etc. - we even got up and did a group exercise. I got to talk to her afterwards and she answered loads of questions without saying 'oh ADIDAS does this, and ADIDAS does that!'... which brings me on to the rest of the talks. Lucazade someone, ADIDAS shoe sellers, Virgin website person... all trying to just advertise their product rather than give us any useful information. Actually I'm being harsh... the nutrition guy was interesting, but he didn't need to sell good nutrition benefits to a room full of marathon trainees for 20 minutes. I think we walked into the room sold. Of course I did get sold by the 2for1 deal on adidas shoes, and now on 2 identical pairs of shoes. I had my feet scanned for free as well, and it turns out that I 'overpronate', basically roll slightly. Sounds like I'm a bit of a gimp, but 70-80% of people in UK do this, so not to worry! :D
I left early, having had my fill of propaganda, and cycled home for a short nap. Then off out to dinner at a friends, followed by a gig, followed by another friends birthday... followed by kebab! I got a little generous at the bar and dropped too much on doubles for a group of people, who probably didn't need doubles at that time of night (sorry if their hangovers are just a little bit worse this morning), but otherwise didn't overdo it tooo much myself. But since I saw the clock read 4am at some point last night, I was in no mood for a long run today, and have postponed it until tomorrow (15 miles!!!!!).
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