This was my first cross country league of the season due to being injured previously, clashing of other races and just not having the confidence to run. However I was feeling good today so decided to give it a go. So off went a full little Clio of girls, running gear, cake, cake and cake. […]
Percy Pud
It’s Christmassssssss….. well kind of as its percy pud time again – my 4th year in a row. Why do I love this race so much because I do and because I can. It is emotional for me in many ways, my first ever pb, my second pb, my third pb, home territory, yes its […]
Heanor Pudding Run
It’s the battle of the pudding runs as for the second year running I take part in the Heanor 10km pudding run, superseded by the Percy Pud 10km in a couple of weeks. Last year I was rocking, I had just joined the fantastic Sheffield Running Club and was enjoying my running smashing my previous […]
High Peak Relays
A foggy damp November Sunday descended upon the picturesque Derbyshire town of Matlock, Cromford Mill to be exact, bathing in Matlock bath. No baths for the 16 or so of Sheffield Running Club runners as we took part in this High Peak Relay. I was running leg 1 and was told it was up hill […]
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 […]
Bupa Great Yorkshire Run
If you asked me a few days before the Great Yorkshire Run how I was feeling, and whether I would run the streets of Sheffield, I would have grunted like a pig and scuffled through the streets like a pig, and looked like a pig probably. If you asked me straight after the Great Yorkshire […]
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 […]
Asics British 10km
I am trying to jog my memory to when I last did some running, in the running world it was a long time ago, all due to a strained tendon on the knee which has a more technical term in the running world but that will do for me. Yet on one of the hottest […]
Race for Life Sheffield
Sheffield was dressed in pink today as 6000 runners descended on Don Valley International Stadium for another Race for Life in support for Breast Cancer. This was the third Race for Life I had done in Sheffield both other times in the afternoon on very hot summer days. This time we got a morning slot, […]