Always on the go
Riding the high of our buggy marathon PB in Montauban at the end of March, we grabbed an unexpected opportunity on Sunday 30th April 2023 to run a fourth full marathon pushing the stroller. It was another early start for our 50-minute drive to beautiful Albi and another rather wet morning. We had a smooth …
The mental and physical benefits of running are well documented, but in my five years of pushing a running stroller, I’ve discovered the following specific additional advantages: Not to mention the fresh air, vitamin D and change of scenery for your little one and a special moment of parent-child bonding time – I’m very honoured …
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 …
It’s school holidays again here, which is always the toughest time to balance training with family life. One obvious solution might be to schedule your easy/recovery/cut-back week to coincide with the kids being at home – or even just abandon hope of running altogether – but often it is not as simple as that. For …
Last year I trained for five (yes five!) marathons while juggling family life with three kids. This meant lots of running during the (seemingly endless) school holidays, accompanied by my littlest one in the running buggy and her older brother and sister on their bikes. We even did 30km (18+ miles) together on one memorable …
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 …
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 …
I’ve had a lovely couple of buggy runs lately (some sweatier than others!) and I thought I’d share a cool trick I’ve recently discovered. It can be hard sometimes to communicate with my little one when running, especially if she’s under either the sun shade or the rain cover (we’ve used both this week as …