Always on the go
Sunday 26th November saw my fourth and final marathon of 2023 and my best finishing time in over twelve years. I traveled with the whole family to San Sebastián for a cheeky little weekend over the border. Living in Toulouse, I’ll never get tired of being able to jump in the car on a Friday …
You’ve probably heard of the iconic “Marathon des Châteaux du Médoc”, arguably France’s most-famous footrace. Runners participate in fancy dress to match the year’s theme and most are there to savour the gourmet refreshment stations nestled amongst the picture-perfect châteaux. Dubbed the “longest marathon in the world”, it serves as a showcase for the region’s …
Our third buggy marathon together and our best time by over six minutes! 3 hours 17 minutes and 20 seconds to be precise, which gave us 5th overall female and first in my age category. I was terribly nervous in the build-up to this race. I barely slept the night before, knowing the clocks were …
I am currently ten weeks and five days into an eleven week training programme for a spring marathon, which means that the big race is on Sunday! The Marathon de Montauban is probably the closest thing we have to a local marathon, since the sad demise of the Toulouse event (cancelled due to Covid-19 and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I’ve spent a lot of time this summer thinking back on the first half of 2022 and trying to decide how I feel about it, from a running perspective. The truth is, I feel deeply disappointed. I can see that I have some things to be proud of. A decent overall mileage, four marathon finishes …