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
Rachel Cullen’s ‘Running for My Life’ is a moving and completely down-to-earth account of one girl’s journey from overweight, self-conscious and thoroughly ‘un-sporty’ to fierce marathon running super-woman. At its very least, it is a heart-warming story that will challenge women to re-think their relationship with exercise and inspire many to dig out their trainers.… Read More Running for My Life: A Review
I took the plunge to ditch the top and embrace the sports-bra squad quite early on in my running career. It was (rarely for the great British summer) absolutely boiling, and I was also pretty unfit meaning I turned into a giant sweat-ridden beetroot after about two minutes. Having the breeze against my skin (as… Read More SportsBraSquad: The Debate
