Always on the go
348km / 216 miles on the clock for this interminably looooooong month! I ran just one race – the Championnat Départemental de cross (like Country Championships in the UK) – which suffered from a low rate of participation (only 24 women in all the junior, senior and masters categories combined). But I ran fairly well …
Total distance run: 3460km / 2150 miles which equates to an average of 288km / 179 miles per month or 67km / 42 miles per week. 30% of this has been done pushing the stroller, so 1028km / 640 miles over the course of the year (although not all of these with an actual child …
A whole month has passed since the Nevers Marathon and I’ve finally found the time and headspace to write a quick race report. In short, it was both a triumph and a disaster. A triumph because we completed the 26.2 miles in good shape and without mishap and we had a truly wonderful time. A …
It’s race weekend, woohoo! Nevers Marathon is the day after tomorrow and I’ll be lining up for my fifth marathon of 2022 and my second one with the buggy. I must confess I had a bit of a wobble last week. I was very under the weather with the worst cold I’ve had in years …
This week’s marathon training involved a much lighter week with no long run, culminating in an all-out effort at a local half marathon. I had done the semi de Tournefeuille twice before: once in 2018 with little DD in the buggy (my first ever race with the stroller) and again a year later, when I …
School holidays, October 2022. I am deep in the thick of marathon training. I am also back at work three days a week. The kids are at home with me on the remaining days. I need to fit in a long run of 30+km, but how? 5am? No thanks, too dark. I try the babysitter, …
Spring 2022. I consider having a go at running a marathon with the buggy. Do I hand-on-heart 100% truly believe this is in the utmost best interests of my small daughter? No, I do not. I am plunged into a moral quagmire. As a mother, should my every move be dictated by my kids’ needs? …
A weekday morning, some years ago now. I dropped the older two off at school, with DD, then still a baby, already fed and snuggled in the running buggy. Unusually for me, we set off for our run straight from the school gates. A few kilometres in and I started to need a wee. I …
Have you ever taken part in an Ekiden? Actually, do you even know what one is? Before I left the UK I certainly didn’t. But over here in France, they are a big deal and rightly so! This team event is a full marathon distance chopped into six relay legs of 5km – 10km – …
This has possibly been my best month of training ever: 390km of solid running (97km of those pushing the buggy), including four progressively long runs of 24, 26, 29 and 32km. I’ve only done one race, the Boulevards de Colomiers 10km, where I finished in a very sluggish 40:48, but this month has been all …