It’s London Marathon season and everyone’s getting excited (except for me, I’m getting FOMO as I forgot to enter). There’s nothing quite like the magic of the London Marathon (magical around the cutty sark, miserable by canary wharf). But are you read for race day?

For a lot of runners that excitement can morph into anxiety about whether their training has been good enough, how they’ll react to energy gels on race day, if they have the right shoes, even if the weather on race day will suit them….and for lots of people this can be about wondering if they have a serious injury that’s going to ruin the big day.

Lots of people are turning up in clinics with what was traditionally termed ‘Maranoia’. I’m not a massive fan of the term because ultimately people do get injured training for the marathon (some of them seriously). It’s important to take all pain seriously at any stage of marathon training but also be aware that during these final few weeks of training, emotional anxiety levels will be high, this can increase your awareness of pain, making relatively minor niggles feel like serious injuries that might put your marathon dreams in jeopardy. If in doubt get it checked out…