When you become a super sad running geek (like me), one of the requirements of a potential holiday has to be a local parkrun. In fact, there is even a designated parkrun travel agent who specialises in exotic international parkrun tourism (they’re called Exodus travels if you’re interested). My latest holiday tourism wasn’t international, or… Read More Holkham Parkrun: A Tourist’s Review
Hands up who’s goal for 2019 is to run a marathon! The wonderful thing about running is it’s easy and simple and you don’t need any kit to do it, right? To some extent that’s totally true, but I invested in a few things along the way that turned out to be absolute god-sends. So… Read More What to Buy if you’re Training for a Marathon
January can be a pretty depressing month for loads of reasons, and it’s really common for our mental health to take a massive dip. I know I’ve been finding things quite hard since Christmas personally, which I’ve written a little bit about here. So I was thinking about writing a blog post about ways to… Read More Beating the January Blues: Fell Running Style
Eating disorders are something I’ve not talked about much so far. I figure there’s only so many miserable things you can write about when you’re trying to spread some positivity – and miscarriage could do with the exposure! But it is something that has affected me hugely, and (I’m coming to terms with the fact… Read More Running and Eating Disorders and Me
I’ve been watching a lot (like really a lot) of Grey’s Anatomy recently, it’s my new obsession. Life on Grey’s anatomy is beyond dramatic, but when they have a really rough patch (and believe me we’re talking serious life or death stuff here) they ‘dance it out’. Now I’m a terrible dancer, so this isn’t… Read More Running it Out: using speedwork to help manage your mental health
A fell race – in the dark – marked by glow-sticks – ending with a pie. You’d be mad not to, right? Or if you’re a normal person, you’d be mad to! I’m not a normal person, but unfortunately for my boyfriend he is. More unfortunately for him he loves me and so his fear… Read More Hathersage Night Fell Race
On Sunday the 14th October I crossed the finish line of the Yorkshire Marathon. Six months previously, I was recovering from surgery after a miscarriage, two days before I should have been running the London Marathon (you can read my first ever post The Beginning here). The week before the Yorkshire marathon was a tough… Read More Running My First Marathon: The Yorkshire Marathon
