This post is two stories about falling; the physical and the metaphorical...
As I am training for my first ever ultra, Trail Marathon Wales seemed like a perfect ‘training run’. It offered similar elevation gains and terrain to Lakeland50 and it would get me used to running on trails for prolonged periods in a race set up. It seemed too good an opportunity to pass up...
This month I am suppose to be running a marathon, I’ve had it pencilled in since November but come raceday I won’t be lining up with everyone else...
Paris Marathon, my first marathon of the year, is only a few weeks away now so my mind is turning to the race and the rest of my time in the City of Lights. Running marathons abroad is incredible, you get to see a city in such a unique and positive way, but it can throw up some problems. In the past two years I’ve run 11 marathons and every single one of them has involved a night or two away from home and 7 of them were overseas. Below are a few things I’ve learned, sometimes the hard way...
Yesterday I needed to get a long run in but was faced with a quandary: I wanted to go to running club but that's only five miles, if I was to run after or before it that would mean running in the dark...
Despite what the inspirational Facebook posts say quitting is very much an option. In fact, it is the easiest option. Once you realise that you can go about excuse proofing yourself, to make sure that your subconscious can't come up with reasons to quit. With a new year just on the horizon I’m sure a lot of you will be coming up with new goals and aims for the year ahead, so I thought I would come up with ten ways to ensure that you stay excuse free...
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