This morning I had the immense honour of being an official pacer at the Robin Hood Half Marathon! Living just a few miles away from the start, the Robin Hood is my biggest local race, so it’s always been close to my heart. I have never been a pacer at a race event before, just… Read More Pacing the Robin Hood Half Marathon 2019
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
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
Local athletics club Holme Pierrepont Running Club hold a summer Grand Prix series each year, consisting of four races over a fortnight, on Tuesday and Thursday evenings of which you can enter all four or any of your choice. We’ve had particularly hot weather recently, and on top of working long hours I have been… Read More HPRC Grand Prix
I’m so lucky to be able to be back running again, but the last few days I have felt a bit down about how slow I am currently compared to a few months ago. I guess that initial buzz of simply being grateful to be doing anything doesn’t last forever. But whenever I feel low… Read More Giving Something Back
Last night I treated myself to an evening of runspiration at the UK screening of Skid Row Marathon. If you haven’t heard about it, Skid Row is a docu-film that tells the story of a High Court Judge, Craig Mitchell, who starts a running club based at a mission centre in Skid Row. Skid Row… Read More Skid Row Marathon
