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
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
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
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
Having now completed two exploratory runs in the Peak District (you can read about these here), I decided it was time to enter my first official fell race. The Black Rock’s race, organised by Matlock AC, was recommended to me on Twitter so I contacted the organisers to advise them of my terrible sense of… Read More My First Fell Race: The Black Rocks
Last week I did something a bit mental. Having never run off-road before I entered for a 16 mile fell race. In the half-hour following this moment of madness, my google search history looked something like this: “what is a fell” (mountain with grass on), and after opening up the directions of the route which… Read More My First Fell Run
As children we love to run, play, skip and fall; we don’t care if we look silly, we aren’t exercising to lose weight or reduce our risk of heart disease. There’s no ‘sporty’ or ‘not sporty’, it’s just fun to move your body. But something is going wrong: at some point using your body stops… Read More This Girl Can: Empowering Women in Sport
