Athletes In Motion

100 miles beats you up. There’s no way around that. Recovery isn’t about doing nothing — it’s about doing the right things to get your body moving and feeling human again.

For me that meant staying active with swimming and walking, hitting the sauna and cold plunge, finally taking stretching seriously, and getting some professional recovery work done with massage/physio/osteopath sessions.

The goal wasn’t to bounce back overnight. The goal was to recover smart, loosen everything up, reduce the damage, and start feeling strong again one day at a time.

Recovery is training too. Don’t neglect it.

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Thames Path 100 ✅

Moving better than expected today… but make no mistake, the body knows it went 100 miles. Stiff, sore, and running on fumes after a brutal night of “sleep” that barely counted.

But it’s done. That finish line hits different.

Couldn’t have done it without my crew—Katrina and Zoe. Absolute gems of humans. The kind of people who hold it together for you when things start to fall apart. Every mile, every low point… they were there.

Grateful. Humbled. And yeah… pretty damn happy it’s over.

4:27 at the Flawed Hero Marathon.

Ups, downs, dark patches, good patches — all part of the game. Started at midnight, ran through the night, and kept moving forward when it got tough.

That’s the lesson every marathon teaches you: you don’t need perfect. You just have to keep going.

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You never know what’s gonna happen in a longer distance race. You just have to keep going!