A weekend of larks in parks as I resolutely stick to my Ronhill #runeveryday for October. What easier way could there be to get a fast, early run in than Park Run? It’s Saturday and its quite early and I’m… Read More ›
Race Reports
My reviews of the races I take part in across all distances
Will run for cheese……apparently !
I run for cake, chocolate and wine most of the time. But this morning I ran for cheese, gorgeous, smelly, blue cheese to be precise.The posh stuff too, the stuff sold in Waitrose ‘don’t you know!’ Day 11 of my… Read More ›
PB, knackered knee, crazy me !
Well butter my backside and call me a biscuit, if I didn’t just run the Robin Hood Half Marathon after all the summer knee trauma but I added a cheeky little PB to this year’s collection. It’s my 4th… Read More ›
Failing to plan…..blah blah blah !
So taped up with my new blue kinesiology tape and route memorised, woeful build up firmly at the back of my mind, Ellie and I decided just to go for it and test out the new Robin Hood Half Marathon… Read More ›
The hi-vis of helpfulness
Otherwise known as my first attempt at marshalling! When Wimbledon is upon us, so too is the Holme Pierrepont Running Club Grand Prix, the club’s big event of the year drawing the running fraternity from several counties around. It’s 4… Read More ›
Purple Rain at Park Run
It’s fast becoming a national treasure, its founders have been recognised by ‘Her Maj’ for their rather clever brainwave, over 700,000 of us across the nation are registered ‘weekend warriors’ hitting parks up and down the UK. The concept has… Read More ›
Face a fear, regain your mojo
So who’d have thought that facing your nemesis would cure the post mara blues and herald the return of long lost mojo? We all have irrational fears that deep down we know are totally unfounded, stupid, all in our head… Read More ›
The Mara-nerd
Ok so what else can you do with all the no marathon training time? Well I decided to go all mara-nerd! That meant an extreme amount of faffing about with my Garmin uploads to see just what completing the world’s… Read More ›
The highs, the lows post VLM
So what are the highs and lows of post marathon week? For once I tried hard to actually account for my age and give running a few days rest, let the old girl recover properly. Monday was spent in a… Read More ›
I am a marathon runner and wow what a marathon!
Wow and wow again, the VLM, the greatest road race in the world, the 26.2……I did that ! So I am now a marathon runner, one of just 1% of the population who have run a marathon (funny, it doesn’t… Read More ›
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