I’m running the Men’s 10k on Sunday in Glasgow in support of SAMH. I’m almost at my £500 target!!! Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far. Your contributions with help SAMH to do some much needed work with children. Their Going to Be campaign is highlighting the lack of support for Read More …
Category: running
inputs and outcomes
2:06:14 It’s a week since I ran the Great Scottish Run Half Marathon. I had hoped to break 2 hours. I convinced myself that my training had gone well but the reality is that with running input = outcomes. I ran 15 times in August and just 9 times in September. That’s not enough miles. Read More …
miles and miles and miles
A half marathon is 13.1 miles or 21km for those of your who are metrically minded. Except it’s not really. At 43 years old you can’t really just rock up at the start line and expect to survive that length of run. So you train. You run 4 times a week for months. You start Read More …
Run4Annis update
So, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged about running, and in particular my half marathon run with my brother-in-law, Scott, in October. To be honest, our training hasn’t been going well, between writing essays, work and Scott moving house it’s all a bit frantic. But we’re committed and tomorrow I will run. Promise. Why Read More …
Running for Annis
My brother-in-law Scott and I have decided to run the Great Scottish Run Half Marathon on 4th October in Glasgow in memory of my mum, Annis. We’re raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Care, a charity very close to my mum’s heart. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999 and secondary cancer in 2013. Read More …
Sometimes you get what you need, not what you want
So, this is what rejection looks like. Well, rejection from the Virgin London Marathon ballot. 3 time unlucky for me. To be honest I’m stuck somewhere between disappointment and relief. The disappointment comes because London is one of the big 4. It’s a world marathon major. It is one of the marathons on most runner’s Read More …
In the Footsteps of Legends
On Sunday I followed in the footsteps of Olympic heroes in the National Lottery Anniversary Run. Last year I won a place on the Olympic Park Run and was one of the first to cross the Olympic finishing line in the newly opened Olympic Stadium. At the time I thought that was a one in Read More …