This was my third time at the Great North Run, my first one was 3 years ago, my second 2 years ago and this one, my deferred entry from last year. Previous years I had loved every minute of it. I had felt excited and very nervous. I had questioned my ability to complete the […]
Yorkshire Vets Relays
Today’s event – the Yorkshire VETs relays, nothing to do with men and women dressed up in white coats running around with dogs, cats and guinea pigs, no, this was the oldies relays for all clubs in the Yorkshire area. It certainty wasn’t raining cats and dogs today either as the sun was blazing down […]
Dam Flask Relays
It’s that time of year again, the last week in June, which means the nights are now drawing in and 300 or so local runners take to the dam of flask at Lower Bradfield for a 3 or 4 legged race. No Camels involved this time around, unlike Percy Pud last year which takes in […]
Sheffield Half Marathon
I was up at 5.30am this morning and sat in an ice bath by 5.40am. All in the name of running. I can not explain why I was doing this – the Sheffield Half Marathon, my second year after a 32.5 mile Ultra Marathon the day before. I was officially mad. I had no idea […]
Derby Midweek Time Trials
It’s mid-week which means its Wednesday which means I am stuck on a train going to some random office with work admist gazing out of dirty rain infested windows at the poor cows munching on the green grass in the pouring rain. Not only is it Wednesday but its April which means rain. Running rain. […]
Betws-y-coed Half
This was no April Fools – well it couldn’t be anyway as this particular race started at midday, however you would have been a fool to participate in it and what fool would go all the way to Snowdonia for a half marathon anyway? Really! Meanwhile my best friend has already run her 10km race […]
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It’s the battle of the pudding runs as for the second year running I take part in the Heanor 10km pudding run, superseded by the Percy Pud 10km in a couple of weeks.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 […]
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 […]
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 […]