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 →
It’s been three years since the header photo on the left was taken. This was my first ever race, a challenge I had set myself to run 10km, with all intentions of stopping afterwards and returning to my rather sedentary life. But instead, while training for that race, something clicked into place, sending me on... Continue Reading →
I kicked off 2019 with a New Years Day double parkrun, and haven't looked back! Parkrun was the place that started off my love affair with running, and it just keeps getting better! This year I ran 41 parkruns, in 17 different locations, including my first two international parkruns in Denmark and Germany. I managed... Continue Reading →
This Saturday I took part in a RunThrough 5k race in Victoria Park, as a sighted guide runner for my friend Lynn, who is a visually impaired (VI) runner. This is the third time we have raced together this year, with the first time being the fantastic Adidas 1hr city race back in April. RunThrough... Continue Reading →
With the Berlin marathon ticked off and my legs fully recovered it was time to start working on my remaining goals for the rest of the year. I’ve been totally inspired by Eliud Kipchoge's historic INEOS 1:59:40 marathon last week, so much so that I’ve decided to set myself my very own #Breaking2 challenge. Obviously... Continue Reading →
This has been the toughest week of Berlin Marathon training so far, with three intense mid-week tempo and interval workouts on my training plan, followed by the longest weekend long run - the 20 miler! Many marathon training plans, like mine, peak with a 20 mile long run around three weeks before race day, to... Continue Reading →
