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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Derby 10km
Taking someone else’s bib with beer stains on it I was in the “sub 60” wave of this race. I would have chosen to be in the “sub 45 wave” if it was my own bib, but then my own bib would have had tea stains on it and not beer stains. The race started […]
Spooky Sprint
Something to raise my spirits: On the 30th October we joined 250 ghoules and ghosts and skeletons around the National Water Centre in Nottingham to run 10km. It looked spookily flat after training on the hills of Sheffield. 2 laps of the lake nothing to fear here. WHo is going to win? No body! Everyone […]
Bupa Great Manchester Run
36 000 people, the atmosphere was incredible. I was in Orange, whilst my friend Becky was in Green. This was my first 10km race after 5 months of injury. I was aiming for a sub 50. A flat route, crowded at first but fine after the first 1km. Lots of people to pace with throughout. […]
Barnsley 10km
A lovely autumn crisp day, quite cold to start with. The run was on the outskirts of Barnsley on country roads. A little narrow through the village at first and then people spread out. It was mostly flat for the first 4 miles as I tried to keep up with the club runners. Markers were […]
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 […]