Six marathons down and definitely more than halfway through now! These blog posts are probably going to get shorter and shorter, sorry, I’m absolutely exhausted. Today was a tough one- didn’t sleep at all last night and was feeling over-emotional this morning which didn’t help and I was crying pretty much continuously from about 5am. I was still a bit tearful at the startline and spent most of the first two laps crying while running which really wasn’t ideal! I was listening to Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane albums though which really helped and by lap four, the crying seemed to be easing off. Definitely good because it’s hard to breathe, cry and run all at the same time!
Weirdly I’d managed to make up enough time to be able to walk/run most of the second half which was a relief because I was knackered by then from the combination of lack of sleep, crying and running on tired legs. I put on Bowie’s Reality Tour album which is a nice mix of live tracks and slowed down into the run. Laps five and six were pretty much zombie running and by lap seven, I’d caught up with a woman I’ve run with a couple of times before so we chatted for the last couple of laps which was really nice and really helped to keep my mood a bit more stable.
At the end of lap seven, I had enough time to run into the garage and buy a diet Coke which was definitely needed and tasted amazing! It was really, really hot again and there’s no real shade on the course so hard not to overheat 
apparently it’s going to get even hotter by the weekend which I’m really not looking forward to. But only four more marathons to go!! REALLY hoping I can last that long…
Thoughts from an Iridescent Starfish 