There was something very special about the 2024 Olympic games - it was the first time any Olympics had included a mass participation event. While normally the Olympics are reserved for spectating the best athletes in the world, this presented a once in a lifetime opportunity to actually take part! So when I first heard... Continue Reading →
For marathon runners, one dream goal comes up time and time again in people's bucket list: to run the six Abbott World Major Marathons. A prestigious set of races across the globe, held in Tokyo, London, Boston, Berlin, Chicago and New York, these are some of the most sought-after races in the calendar. Gaining entry... Continue Reading →
It seems an incredibly long time ago now, December 2019 in fact, since I heard I had been lucky enough to obtain a Chicago marathon place. This ticket has been rolled over, deferred and reclaimed numerous times, but finally, hopefully I will be able to attend the race this year in October. Which means it... Continue Reading →
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 →
The past couple of months saw all my 2020 races steadily cancelled one by one, including finally the ones I had been looking forward to the most, the Chicago and New York marathons. With no need to carry on with the long distance training runs, I had instead been working on various self-appointed running challenges... Continue Reading →
Monday Running 