On 5th October, I ran the Cardiff Half Marathon, which was my first Super Half. This was my 3rd race of 2025 and first half-marathon since I ran a PB at the 2023 Stafford Half Marathon in March 23. As was the case at the Stafford half 2 years ago, the Cardiff half was part of my build up to the Chicago Marathon, which was … Continue reading CARDIFF HALF MARATHON 2025 RACE RECAP
On 9th August, I ran the Tatton Park 10k. This was my second race of 2025, having run the Brooklyn Half Marathon in May after 216 days out injured. My main focus this year is to get back to running consistently and get as prepared as possible for the Chicago Marathon in October. With that in mind, I haven’t been training for this 10k specifically, … Continue reading TATTON PARK 10K 2025 RACE RECAP
On 17th May, I took part in the 2025 Brooklyn Half Marathon. This was a race I had registered for through Sports Tours International and paid for myself. Following the 2024 Chicago Marathon, I had picked up an achilles injury, which meant I had not run since 13th October. Having already committed to paying for this weekend, I decided to travel out to NYC and … Continue reading BROOKLYN HALF MARATHON 2025 RACE RECAP
On 13th October, I took part in the Chicago Marathon which was my 19th marathon overall and 14th World Marathon Major. I had previous run the 2018 Chicago Marathon where I had aimed for a 3:20 but fell short running 3:41. This time, when I signed up I had a big scary goal of attempting to run under 2hrs 50min that would have been over … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 RACE RECAP
I’ve made it to the final two weeks of this training block! Thank god for that! It hasn’t been the training block I had hoped for and my race day goal has shifted from chasing sub 2:50 to making it to the finish line. That said, no training block is perfect and we often have obstacles to over come and adapt to. Adapting is what … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 TRAINING: WEEK 15 & 16
Here is a quick breakdown of what I will be wearing, the tech I will use and pre-race & race fuelling for the 2024 Chicago Marathon. Nutrition: So it kinda goes without saying but nothing new on race day and that can’t be more true that with the food pre-race and during the race. As this one is an international travel race for me I … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 GEAR
Continuing my new trend of running a brand activation shakeout run instead of paying the $40-$50 to run the pre-marathon 5k shakeout runs, I headed over to the Chicago Lululemon store to run their shakeout run. It was a toss up between Lululemon and Tracksmith for me, but having run with Tracksmith in Boston and Berlin this year I wanted to try something different. Plus, … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 LULULEMON SHAKEOUT RUN
It’s race weekend once again, the final race of 2024 and it’s a big one. The 2024 Chicago Marathon. This is the race I had been training all summer for, gone through the highs and many lows of this training block but I am here. I flew out on Friday 11th Oct from Manchester via Dublin with Aer Lingus arriving into O’Hare at 2pm. Having … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 BIB PICK UP & EXPO
Final two weeks leading into the Berlin Marathon aka the last long run before Chicago. Week 11 & 12 turned into a struggle after making great progress in weeks 9 & 10. In the last update I had picked up a niggling hip pain which wasn’t causing major pain but it just ached in the latter stages of longer runs and the next day. I … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 TRAINING: WEEK 13 & 14
On 29th September I took part in the Berlin Marathon, my 18th marathon overall and 13th Abbott World Marathon Major. This was also my second time running Berlin after the 2017 Berlin Marathon was my 1st time running a World Marathon Major and third marathon. Ever since then Berlin has had a very special place in my heart, not specifically because of the race or … Continue reading BERLIN MARATHON 2024 RACE RECAP
The Cheshire Runner. 