Sixty Marathons in Her Sixtieth Year: the Jurassic Coastal Challenge

This amazing lady is running 60 marathons in her sixtieth year - I am honoured to help support her if just in a very small way. She battled horrendous mud, wind, hail storms, lightning only having an occasional ray of sun to complete the 2024 challenge and clock up an amazing 15 marathons so far this year!

Great photos below with her medals and the lovely Mary for support

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This is her own personal video she did on route https://www.facebook.com/61554675691405/videos/792033546117677/

She appears in the beginning of the video below - last years event as the sun is shining!

Three coastal marathons in three days

The Jurassic Coastal Challenge follows the South West Coast Path along the Dorset and East Devon coast. Each day is a full marathon over steep cliff paths, stony beaches and long climbs. Doing three back to back is one of the toughest tests of endurance there is, and doing it as part of sixty marathons in a year is extraordinary.

What back-to-back marathons do to the body

When you run day after day, your muscles don't get the usual time to recover. The steep descents on a coastal route load the quads hard, and the climbs work the calves, glutes and hips. Over several days, small areas of tightness can build up and change the way you move. That is often when niggles turn into injuries.

How sports massage supports an endurance runner

For a runner with a big year of events, regular sports massage is part of the training plan, not a treat. It helps to:

• find tight or overloaded areas early, before they stop you running,

• keep muscles and joints moving well between events, and

• ease stiffness in the days after a race, so you can get back to training sooner.

Timing matters too. A lighter session in the days before an event, and a gentle flushing session two to three days after, usually work best.

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