I have entered the Nottingham Robin Hood Half Marathon three years in a row, but due to injuries I’ve never even made it to the start. So, this year I waited until just a few weeks before to enter, aiming to complete it as part of my taper for the Yorkshire marathon two weeks later.… Read More The Robin Hood Half Marathon
When I began training for this marathon I imagined that at the end I would emerge a slim, toned running machine, and utterly bikini ready. Thanks to extreme runger (this is a real thing) with secondary severe donut-addiction this wasn’t completely to be, but I’m definitely leaner and stronger. However, I began to realise there… Read More My Top Ten Tips for Runner’s Feet
I have spent the last half hour in the bath eating several packets of Monster Munch, because I have just run TWENTY MILES! Twenty actual miles. This was my final long run before the Yorkshire Marathon, which I (really) hope I will have completed by this time in three weeks. And it was really, really… Read More The Final Long Run
As some of you might know, it’s been a bit of a rocky road reaching the penultimate long run. At the end of last week I had sudden abdominal pain in the middle of the night which culminated in fainting and damaging both the radiator and my head! We spent a long night in A&E… Read More The Penultimate Long Run
This August Bank Holiday I attended the very first (and hopefully annual) Well Vet Weekend, in Cambridge, a joint venture from VetsNet and VetLed. This was a weekend designed to promote and encourage well-being in the veterinary profession, through a mixture of talks, work-shops and activities. The offer to be involved was one of the… Read More The Anxious Run Leader
I’ve just returned from an incredible experience, the first ever Well Vet Weekend: a whole weekend dedicated to well-being in the veterinary profession – and it was really amazing. I wanted to come straight home and write all about exactly how amazing it was, from sharing my new experiences, (like yoga nidra and meditation!) to… Read More The Failed Run
Athletics tracks: they’re for Athletes, right? What business does an (enthusiastic) but thoroughly amateur runner have on one of those? I never in a million years thought I’d ever run around a real athletics track. But I did, and I loved it! So I want to share what you might expect from your first ever… Read More Why You Need To Go To A Track Session
