I’ve never been the sportiest person, and my running journey began in my 30s. When I signed up for my first marathon, I didn’t even own a pair of trainers. People laughed, thinking I was insane, but six months later, I ran it. The challenge of covering 26.2 miles both excited and sickened me. I …
For the love of it…
Social media, I have a love-hate relationship with it. It’s a great way of finding like-minded people, people to ask/share advice with, and people training for the same events as you. It can be a great source of information. I’ve met a lot of lovely people online that I would now class as friends. It …
Top events in Yorkshire
It was all happening in ‘darn sarf’ last weekend with the Westminster mile and the Vitality 10K in London. You were guaranteed a bad case of FOMO by looking at everyone’s social media posts. It did, however, it get me thinking about how many great events we have up here in Yorkshire. London may have the …
Liverpool Rock and Roll 2018
This race is one of my favourites – you could say it was made for me. I run, I love music, I love Liverpool and your race number includes a beer ticket – what more could you want? I was taking part for the fourth year running. The Rock ‘n’ Roll series is a whole …
When to replace running shoes
I was chatting with a friend this week, about buying new trainers. ‘You’re always new buying trainers’ she replied. That *may* be true, but trainers, just like car tyres, do have a lifespan, anything from 300-500 miles, this can be clocked up pretty quickly when marathon training. There are a number of factors can make your trainers …
When things don’t go to plan
I have a lot of crazy ideas. 2 marathons, 6 weeks apart, one lot of training should be enough for both. I’ve managed it the previous two years, so I signed up again without hesitation. The plan was the same, go for a ‘good time’ in Manchester and then ‘have a good time’ in Liverpool. …