My Mum and Dad always told me it was dangerous to meet people from the Internet, so who knows what they thought about me going to run a Marathon in Valencia with a group of people I’d met on Instagram 😂 But, it was one of the best weekends EVER with a group of absolutely… Continue reading Valencia Marathon
‘I love myself’ is hard for most of us to say out loud or admit to in any way. The concept of loving yourself is sometimes a difficult one to get your head around, with the popular misconception that loving yourself is really just self indulgent adulation. Personally, I’ve always struggled with this and very… Continue reading Self Love is the Hardest
Everything is going well, you are killing your workouts, riding that Positivity Train with a massive smile on your face and then bang, out of nowhere it happens….the dreaded setback of an injury. It’s like a battery running out with no warning, the Positivity train screeches to a halt and within minutes those sneaky little… Continue reading How to deal with setbacks
Go and get yourself a cup of tea, put your feet up and relax while I tell you a little story about 40 runners who started off as strangers but finished as friends………..this could take a while Back in March (which seems like a lifetime ago) we had a conversation about putting forward a @whatifirunwithyou… Continue reading #Whatifirunragnarwithyou
Being positive is a state of mind where you take the T out of CAN’T and start realising you CAN. It’s far easier to find negatives and dwell on that but who does that hurt? Only yourself. You can find the positives in anything as long as you are willing to look hard enough. Every… Continue reading Positivity
After completing the Marathon and having the obligatory week long blow out of Drink, Food, more Drink and just about squeezing in a few bits of exercise I really needed a bit of laser focus back in my life to help me kick on. After a few chats with my partner in crime, Tom, the… Continue reading #2TOMS40DAYCHALLENGE
I was asked by a friend of mine what my running story was and it got me thinking about it and my reasons to run, so here it goes….. As a young (possibly ever so slightly immature) teenager, all I cared about was football. I had a limited interest in running generally (although I did… Continue reading My Reasons to Run
It’s a question I get asked a lot by people and the simple answer is YES! But the first question you have to ask yourself is ‘do YOU want to run a Marathon?’ and whatever the reason is the answer must be a resounding YES! I’m clearly not a stereotypical runner, I have many wobbly… Continue reading Can anyone run a Marathon?
I was going to write about the road to London Marathon but for anyone that has read my previous Marathon Blogs it was along the same lines as the last 2 and can be summarised as: Training going well. Sub 4 on the cards. Injured. Down. Get back training. New time goals. New Injury. Time… Continue reading London Marathon Race Report
Am I a runner? It’s a question many of us will ask ourselves at some point, but should the pace that someone runs at define whether they are considered a runner or not? I have read that there is technically a difference and that jogging has been defined as “running at speeds of less than… Continue reading Find your “only”
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