Catherine Lorimer's Guide to Life

London Marathon Training Week 2

Hello and welcome to this weeks podcast about my London Marathon Training, for anyone who didn’t listen to week one, I started running in February 2023 after doing a half marathon walk around London and ran my first marathon at the beginning of September, in just 7 months. This podcast is also here to give you some inspiration if you have just started running and to give you some hints and tips and advise you if you are running your first marathon or if you just want some motivation to get fitter and loose some weight.

Coming up in the podcast this week, update on my training, I will be interviewing my amazing marathon runner cousin, James Kimber, I have some dumbbell tips from Jo Bridge Fitness I will be letting you know about Mindful Chef and to finish off some beginner running tips.

In week one I ran a total of 17 miles over 4 days, this week I have run a total of over 4 days, I wanted to say a bit about planning, I diaries the miles that I need to run each day each week and this really helps me to stick to my training plan.  

This week I have done 15 miles, I did a 9 mile long run at the beginning of the week, then I have been tapering ahead of my half marathon next weekend. I have done three 2 mile runs at a faster pace, mainly because I have had two Labradors towing me, Pippa and her sister Rosie who needs to the vet said needed to lose a couple of kgs so I offered to run with her and it has really helped with my pace.  

Training issues this week

The cold weather, I have found this particularly challenging as being an asthmatic I struggle with my breathing, I have had to take it easy for the first couple of miles until I get my breathing under control.

It has also been icy conditions so not ideal for running, especially with a Labrador who tends to pull you.

Interview with James Kimber from Chester.

Strength and conditioning sessions

I did three in week 1 a total of 1hr 10 mins of body conditioning and 40 minutes of Pilates.

I am following workouts for The Nu You app and I am also taking dumbbell and pilates session from the 20 minute club run by Jo Bridges and there is access to loads of classes on this and its great value for £14.99 a month. 

Here is a snippet from Jo’s Instagram account on Dumbbells and which she has given me permission to include in my podcast.

This week I have been cooking food from the Mindful chef, for those of you who have not heard of the mindful chef they delivery boxes with all the ingredients in each week for whichever recipe you have chosen. The ingredients supplied is from local and sustainable producers.

The idea behind The Mindful Chef is getting good quality local produce but also trying to reduce food waste by supplying just enough ingredients for the amount of people eating the dish.  When you buy from The Mindful Chef you are also donating to one feeds two, so for my three meals a child has received three free school meals.

They are promoting healthy eating and trying to get people away from quick fix crash diets as they do not work long term and people like myself need a life style change and to change eating habits completely. The idea is to have a smaller portion of meat or fish from a sustainable source and bulk it out with fresh in season local vegetables. There recipes are also gluten-free with no dairy. If you buy meat and fish produce from local suppliers you can check the quality of welfare at these producers, rather than getting a piece of chicken in a supermarket that has been important from South America and you have no idea of how that animal was treated.  The main principles are

Less meat but better quality

No Dairy

Natural ingredients, no processed foods, or refined foods or any with added sugars

Grass fed beef, free range chickens, MSC certified fish

All 100% British <

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Last year to went from a non runner to a marathon runner in 7 months.  Following on from this success, I am determined this year to get even fitter, by eating healthier food, loosing more weight and doing more training to run a better time in the London Marathon in April 2024.

Follow my journey my is full of hints and tips if you are running your first marathon or if you just want to start running, In this episode I give some more information on what food I am eating, some of the recipes can be found on my Instagram and youtube channel.  There will also be hints and tips from trainers and I will be interviewing a multiple  marathon runner in the coming weeks to get some more on what he dose in his marathon training.

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I had a go at doing a half marathon trail run in 2023 on the beautiful estate of Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire.  It is one of my most favourite places and holds lots of really great memories,  This podcast is about the Castle and Estate and some of the other events that I have attended there as well as how the trail run went. I hope that you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed running it, which is not a sentence I ever thought I would find myself saying or writing!

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This is the final podcast for this season, Here about car maintenance, self assessment and not the tax one, my fell pony Merlin and the start of our next adventure and my Ghost Hunting experience.  Have a great summer everyone, get out there and do loads of things.  

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In this penultimate podcast I head off to Tarvisio which is on the boarder of Austria and Slovenia, I head off to the Carfest festival on my own and then buy a canal boat to holiday on next summer.

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This week I am talking about how to get through Easter single, especially if you don't have family or friends to share it with.  Have a listen to how I went from doing a training run to running the Wirral Way and the daily hot bloke count.

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In this weeks light-hearted podcast I am chatting about my trip to Winterbach, my Red Barrows training, how I lost my car keys at the airport and also about my experience of having a personal trainer.  

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