A quick 6-miler after work

I got a quick 6-miler in after work today, which was good.

I was watching the first part of the Eddie Izzard documentary last night.  In case you're not aware, Eddie is a comedian and from the documentary seems like a normal type of guy, who has done virtually no running at all.  Well, Eddie took on the challenge of running 43 marathons in 51 days for charity.  I'll say that again....yes, that's 43 marathons in 51 days, with virtually no training preparation!

From the documentary he had completed 6-weeks training with a team that got him as ready as they could, and then he launched himself into the challenge.  It was actually pretty inspirational watching this as he had a lot of issues early on (I've only seen episode 1 of the 3 part series) with blisters, IT band problems, tiredness etc and seemed to be obviously struggling at times.  OK, he had a medical team with him, but this is truly an amazing achievement.

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