June 2021: a month of mainly glorious hot weather and a last-minute entry to a nearby race that had caught my eye, the Sihks in the City Dawn till Dusk Ultra! I first heard about the Sikhs in the City races from my local parkrun friends and quickly became enamoured with this running group and... Continue Reading →
When I think of cross-country racing it conjures up images of secondary school, of enforced running on freezing cold days when the hockey pitch was too waterlogged to play. With those memories at the back of my mind, I had been putting off signing up for any cross-country races before now, preferring to stick to... Continue Reading →
Any regular readers will have probably realised by now that I do love to set myself regular running challenges; be that a new PB or a virtual event. Having just recently ticked off both my Six Pack Revolution fitness training and my Garmin Coach 5 km improvers plan, I was feeling somewhat bereft and without... Continue Reading →
This spring, with no half or full marathon races on the horizon any time soon, I thought now would be the ideal time to put aside the long training runs, and turn my focus towards the shorter distances for a change. Especially with the very welcome recent news that parkrun is hoping to restart it's... Continue Reading →
Saturday 14th March 2020 - an uneventful muddy morning at Walthamstow parkrun as I plodded around the 5km route in a leisurely time of 34 minutes, not knowing that this would be the last parkrun I would take part in for quite some time! In all honesty, when that first parkrun was cancelled, I was... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year! It's 2021, time to put the difficulties of the past year behind us and start looking towards a brighter time ahead. At least, that's what most of us thought as New Year's eve ticked over into January, however it soon became obvious that the early of 2021 could well turn out to... Continue Reading →
Well, this year didn't quite go as planned did it? Like so many of us, I started this year fresh with hopes and plans, and a calendar packed full of races to look forward to. Well, we all know what happened next! It's been a year full of challenges and frustrations, of readjusting mindsets and... Continue Reading →
So, we've nearly made it through 2020 and can hopefully start looking forward to a brighter new year with hopes of a vaccine on the horizon. It's been a very challenging time for race event organisers, having to cancel all their events for months on end, and then adapt to the ever-changing regulations when bringing... Continue Reading →
As with so many of us, the first half of 2020 was a bit of a struggle for me. When the first lockdown hit, I suddenly found myself flung into juggling working from home, with homeschooling two young children. I never felt at the time as if my eating habits really changed, but my anxiety... Continue Reading →
So here we are, approaching the end of 2020, with my running goals for the year long since fallen by the wayside. Like so many of us, I found the early lockdown quite a struggle, trying to work effectively from home whilst home schooling my two little boys. One by one, my dream races were... Continue Reading →
