After finishing the London Marathon a few weeks ago, I’m prioritising restoration in this recovery phase. For me this is both a mental and physical process, and I’m doing my best to tune in to what my body needs. Physically I know I’m pretty worn out, and my body is very tense and tight from… Read More A Review of Hot Pod Yoga
Up until now the London Marathon was an anniversary of one of the hardest times of my life. In 2018 I was lucky enough to have a charity place and had raised over £3,000 for the Guide Dogs Association. I discovered I was pregnant several weeks before the race, and after consulting my doctor decided… Read More Running the London Marathon 2019
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
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
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
