Aug
26
I felt pretty dreadful for most of the day yesterday – in fact, that’s rubbish, I felt awful all day… After heading into town for my PT course, it dawned on me that I’d had a pretty heated conversation with some travel industry colleagues at the leaving do and so sent them an apologetic text. [...]
Jun
27
So I know it’s not much of another milestone, given I passed my 1095 mile target just yesterday but today’s run took me past 1,100 miles so far. With the weather so warm, I’ve decided on gym days I’m going to split my run: run up to the gym, do some weights and run back…. [...]
Jun
21
So 90 days left but just 14 more miles to complete my first target: to complete more than 1095miles in the year. At this rate, it looks like I could complete the year with a total of around 1,400 miles, which would be a pretty good effort I reckon. I’ve been going through one of [...]
May
15
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
15
The weather is getting warmer and I’m starting to get that the warmth is not the friend of the runner. Despite now stripping kit right back to just tee, shorts, socks, shoes, even on a gentle 3 miler I end up drenched. At the end of a run, I always stretch in the same place [...]
May
12
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
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
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
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
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 [...]
