This is my first race of 2020 and I have to say, I have been getting serious FOMO seeing so many people posting about races on social media. I haven’t raced for four months and only raced 5 times since returning from Tokyo 11 months ago. I have really been looking forward to racing hard this weekend and seeing what I can do and where … Continue reading THE BIG HALF 2020 RACE RECAP
In the BOSTON MARATHON TRAINING: WEEK 3 & 4 update I got back on track with the long runs after cutting two short in the first two weeks of training. I also continued with the speed endurance work, building in some miles at my goal marathon pace of 6:50min/mile. WEEK 5 – 3rd – 9th February: This week followed the same routine as previous weeks. One … Continue reading BOSTON MARATHON 2020 TRAINING: WEEK 5 & 6
In my BOSTON MARATHON TRAINING: WEEK 1 & 2 update I talked about what I had been up to in the two months since the New York City Marathon before heading into the first two weeks back on the marathon training wagon. I had a few issues with my long runs in both week 1 and 2 so the big main aim for these next two … Continue reading BOSTON MARATHON 2020 TRAINING: WEEK 3 & 4
No sooner have Christmas and New Year passed us by, we are looking forward to the spring marathon season. I for one cannot wait to see the back of these cold, grey and damp winter months. I would be happy if we had some snow here in the UK, I love running in snow but nope, just rain and fog. This spring I will be … Continue reading SPRING MARATHON SEASON
2019 was a good year for running. I set new PB’s at the 5k, 10k, Half Marathon and Marathon distances as well as achieving my long-term goal of running a Boston Qualifying time. Triathlon wasn’t as successful due to missing 4 months of the season with injury but I did come back to run a PB at the Outlaw X middle distance triathlon. Looking ahead … Continue reading 2020 GOALS
Another 12 months of running, swimming, riding and racing is done. These are my thoughts looking back at each month of 2018. A year which saw me complete two Ironman events, run half marathon and marathon PB’s and record my biggest year in swimming, biking and running. Continue reading 2019 REVIEW
2019 was going to be the year where I took that step over from running to triathlon. I began that year buying a new trisuit, my first item from Zoot and absolutely loved it and the fact that it had Kona writen on the back made it even more special.My first triathlon of the 2019 was IRONMAN 70.3 MALLORCA this was also the first race … Continue reading I AM JOINING TEAM ZOOT FOR 2020
This is my third time running the New York City Marathon, have a read of my NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2017 and NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2018 to see how the previous two years have gone. Some highs and some lows in there and more of the same to come in 2019. The day began with a 4:30am alarm, thankfully, the clocks go back an hour … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2019 RACE RECAP
The final day in New York. Another marathon weekend draws to a close as does the 2019 racing season for me. I now have no more races on the plan until 1st March 2020 and after a long season which pretty much began on the 27th November 2018 and went right through to yesterday, 3rd November 2019, it has been a long tiring year. It … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2019 – DAY 4: LEAVING NEW YORK
This post will be quite brief. Today was race day so I will post a separate New York City Marathon race recap. I have a rule when it comes to posting or making any decisions after a big race like this. Leave it 72 hours before doing anything regarding the race. That gives time for things to sink in and not post in the heat … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2019 – DAY 3: RACE DAY
The Cheshire Runner. 