Rock ‘n’ Roll ready
The Rock n Roll half is tomorrow morning and I am just about set and ready to enjoy this awesome race. I’ve had an easy week training wise to wind down and taper before the race, three 30 mile weeks...
View ArticleTurn it up to 11
Last week was another great training week on my quest for a sub 2.00 hour half marathon in Cardiff. On Monday I was still visiting home in Cardiff so I went out for a nice 4 mile jog to...
View Article13 miles in the running bank
I felt refreshed after last weeks easier mileage week and ready to kick start the really hard few weeks of training. This week has been a busy one, full of cracking workouts. The week started with an...
View ArticleCardiff Half Marathon 2013
Finally the day had arrived, the day I had been training so hard for the last 8 weeks for. I slept pretty well and felt good when I woke up at 6.45 this morning, I jumped in the shower and then had my...
View ArticleWIAW- Cardiff Half Marathon
Happy WIAW! I am currently in London checking out flats for our move to the big smoke, so I thought it would be cool to look at my eats from Sunday as I did the Cardiff half, obviously this is a lot...
View Article2013 Recap
Well 2013 was quite a year: Lovely trips, great races, moving to London. The year has been a whirlwind, and there have been plenty of high points. Health wise the year has been up and down. I started...
View ArticleBerlin Marathon Training Week 2
I don’t actually feel like I am marathon training at the moment. I’m not following a plan and I feel like I’ve got so used to running 5 times a week over the last few months that 4 feels like I’m...
View ArticleRun Hackney Half Marathon
When I initially signed up to this race I was really looking forward to it, but a few weeks of knee/calf pain had me less excited about the race and more hopeful I could just get through it! After...
View ArticleSurrey Badger Trail Half Marathon 2014
I made a pretty last minute decision to enter this event, having never even heard of it until reading about it on Jen’s blog. I immediately set to googling it, and finding as much about it as possible...
View ArticleThoughts during 13.1
On Sunday I ran the Brighton half, it was my first time running the race and I was excited having heard rave things from those running it last year and also a little nervous at how my shin/calf would...
View ArticleNorth Down’s Way Half 2017
Over the weekend I did my first race since the NDW50 in May and ironically I was returning back to the North Down’s Way. To be honest after the race I didn’t think I would want to see the NDW for a...
View ArticleVal Nolasco Half Marathon O’ahu Hawaii 2017
I had arrived in San Francisco on the Thursday evening, spent two days there with the other half who had already been there for a few days for a work conference, and on Saturday we flew to O’ahu...
View ArticleVictoria Park Half 2018: New PB.
If I had to name my worst races ever, then the Victoria Park half in March 2016 would definitely be up there. I was on antibiotics at the time for an infected blister on my toe and they had really...
View ArticleThe Big Half 2017
The Big Half was a bit of a last minute entry for me, I hadn’t signed up when it originally launched but a few weeks before the race they announced they had some reduced price bibs for residents, and...
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