Always on the go
A full mother-daughter marathon. 42.2km pushing my four-and-a-half-year-old in the buggy. And we didn’t just manage to complete the distance, we finished in a very respectable time (3 hours 23 minutes), came 4th of all the women in the race and 1st out of all the female masters. I am absolutely thrilled! A family mini-break …
On Sunday, I’ll take on the biggest running challenge of my life when I attempt a full marathon pushing my four-and-a-half-year-old in the buggy. I really don’t know if I can do it. My marathon efforts so far this year have been mediocre at best. 26.2 miles is certainly not my forte. Plus I’ll be …
I haven’t had much time to write lately as life has been busy busy busy, but I’m here now for a quick update on our buggy marathon preparations. I’ve notched up three long stroller runs of 26km, 30km and 28km, though only the first of these was actually done with DD as she’s been back …
I’m super excited to announce that I’m going to be running one final spring marathon… and this time, with the buggy! My little DD is 100% on-board with the idea and we’ve found the perfect race: the Marathon de Poitiers-Futuroscope. The organisers seem super friendly and they’ve responded with enthusiasm to my request to take …
You might find this difficult to believe, but just two weeks after Paris, I entered ANOTHER marathon. This time it was a local event – the Marathon d’Albi, just fifty minutes’ drive away. I set my alarm for 5am to be ready for my lovely friend Jo, who kindly gave me a lift over there. …
3:12 in the capital on Sunday. My eighth marathon and my eighth result within the window 2hr58 – 3hr13. How’s that for consistency?! In many respects my race was spookily similar to Montpellier. I blew up spectacularly at the same place – not long after 25km, which is embarrassingly early for someone who has supposedly …
Guess what? I have entered another marathon! And it’s THIS SUNDAY… that’s just two weeks after Montpellier! And… it’s PARIS!! I’m sure you’re thinking that I must have gone crackers to be attempting 42km again so soon, but let me explain. I found out after the event that Montpellier wasn’t correctly measured and lost its …
3:11 at my big spring marathon yesterday (my second-worst ever marathon time) and a massive disappointment for me to process. I think this brutal experience can be aptly summarised under three headings: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The Good My kit worked perfectly! I took the risk of running in brand new socks …
RACE WEEKEND IS FINALLY HERE… the 2022 Marathon de Montpellier is this Sunday! I’m so excited I can hardly sit still. I still have some doubts (mostly about my knee, which has not felt good this week), but I’m giving myself a boost by looking back at ten awesome weeks of training. I’ve run roughly …
Yesterday was a tough one. My dodgy left knee, which has miraculously barely troubled me during this marathon build-up, suddenly started hurting again. It was so sore on Tuesday evening that I had to take a load of painkillers just to get to sleep. Very worrying just a few days out from race day. On …