My experience from the few races I’ve done is that I normally feel a bit blue in the week after but also ache enough to not want to try another long run the weekend after. Not so this morning. I first opened my eyes at about 5.30am with sun streaming through the windows, managed to [...]
May
12
The ups and downs of running 3 miles a day
Yesterday afternoon I had lunch with Emma O’Boyle who works for Tripadvisor. After asking me about my running challenge, she said: ‘Surely, you must feel healthier for it?’ The surprising thing is, I don’t – or at least I don’t think I do. On the one hand, I’m obviously fitter, I don’t think I could [...]
May
09
Promotion for Leeds, PB at the Leeds Half Marathon
So with a huff and a puff and by the skin of our teeth, Leeds Utd were promoted back to the Championship yesterday and I couldn’t even have a drink to celebrate with this morning’s race ahead of me. I had a dreadful night’s sleep, waking up with pre race nerves several times through the [...]
May
08
Nervous about running, nervous about Leeds Utd
Today is the day my team, Leeds United could get promoted from League One but I’ve also got the Leeds Half Marathon tomorrow… even if Leeds go up, I can’t really celebrate with the race tomorrow. Laura, myself and three of her mates came up to Leeds yesterday. While the girls will be horse riding [...]
May
07
A late night election night obviously does me good
Well, being up for most of the night watching the election results come in has obviously done me no harm in my running. I’m a bit of an election junkie and love seeing the drama unfold – well all of it aside from Andrew Neil interviewing pissed celebs on a boat on the Thames – [...]
May
05
And I will pass 900miles…
I didn’t realise sometimes running slower than you are used to is harder than running faster. For the last couple of weeks my training pace has upped quite a bit and I’ve been covering my 3 miles a day in about 26 minutes. But conscious of this weekend’s Leeds half marathon, I tried to slow [...]
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