Wig Wag wig wag your tail for the Wiggle 10km Cross Country at Catton Park in Tamworth, a 10km cross country and running with dogs (not cats despite it being Catton park). Mudtastic! This was my second time at this race – last year I came second too, lets see if I can come second […]
Sheffield 101010
This was my first race since May 2011 after being injured with the dreaded Plantar Fascitis (nasty evil plantar f&*^%ing Fascitis). I had been running on and off short distance for about 3 to 4 weeks prior to today so wasn’t expecting anything nothing nothing at all. I had entered this race knowing it was […]
Heanor 5
Sometimes runners wait months or years to participate in a race, sometimes runners wait minutes or just hours. This event dropped into the latter category. Only a few hours before had I decided to do this run on a wet Friday evening 40 miles from home with my friend Becky. After making various excuses including […]
Chatsworth 10km
Chatsworth House 10km all in aid of Helen’s Trust – nothing to do with me just something to do with a great charity and a great place to run in Derbyshire on a sunday morning, and why not? So let the race commence, ready steady run. This multi terrain course had a reputation for being […]
Wiggle 10km
Wiggle wiggle wiggle I wonder why I wiggle? The last day in April took us to Burton on Trent for something completely different – a Wiggle 10km trail / cross country route on a lovely Saturday morning. This was part of a larger all weekend event but we weren’t game enough to ride bikes in […]
Sheffield 101010
101010 10th Oct 2010 what a sucker for a novelty run and in my home town too. What a shame (can you hear the voices of Robbie and Gary now? – ‘ all together now ‘Oh what a shame’,….) I was a poorly purple person having just got back from Turkey the evening before with […]
Sherwood Pines 10km
With my two best mates running this race too and having done the 5km course a few months before I was looking forward to this race. All trail so a bit of a scramble at first with cones and bends getting in the way. I latched onto another female runner and we followed each other […]
Race for Life 10km
A gorgeous setting for this undulating run around the grounds of Kedleston Hall near Derby. A very narrow start meant it was difficult to get a good pace at the start. A very tough hill around the 3km mark on grass, though I managed to overtake a few people going up the hill. At the […]
Big Fun Run Sheffield
Having completed the Big Fun Run in Derby a month or so before, I knew what to expect, mainly for the novice runner and jogger hence the “fun” element of it. Only 200 or so runners, yet Graves Park is not just for the novice runner with its hills and grassy banks making it quite […]
Big Fun Run Derby
The big fun run in Darley Abbey Park was just for fun with only around 200 runners joggers walkers and dogs. Just a bit of fun. It was a hot day luckily the run was in the shade. The gun went off and I kept within the top 10 of all runners throughout the event. […]