It has almost been 12 months since I posted MY 2020 RUNNING SHOE ROTATION so I think it is about time I shared the shoes I am/have been running in during 2021. Just like in 2020 I have broken these down into Easy Day shoes, Tempo & Interval shoes, Long Run shoes, Race Day shoes and Cross Country / Trail shoes. Whilst there looks to … Continue reading MY 2021 RUNNING SHOE ROTATION
Okay, so I have left it a week before writing this, I wanted to let the emotion of the event subside a little before putting pen to paper. I will break this blog down into registration, racking then split the race out into four sections. I will try to put lots of photos to break it up too. This is my second time doing Ironman … Continue reading IRONMAN UK 2021 RACE RECAP
My first race of 2021!! The first time pinning a number on since the Mid Cheshire 5k in August 2020, 10 months ago and my first 10k since running the Tatton 10k as part of my recovery from a calf strain in August 2019, 22 months ago! I have been training for Ironman UK which is (hopefully) in 4 weeks time. This training has been … Continue reading CHASE THE SUN TATTON 10K RECAP
Today marks 5 months since I declared myself an injured runner on the 18th October 2020 following the completion of the Virtual New York City Marathon. That statement alone tells you that I waited until completing a marathon before saying enough was enough. In fact, I had the pain at the end of August and continued to train as it “didn’t feel that bad”, I … Continue reading INJURY UPDATE – 5 MONTHS ON
It is that time where we sit down and pen the goals for the coming year. I am not a big fan of making huge sweeping changes to my goals as I believe in setting one big lifetime goal such as qualifying for the Ironman World Champs at Kona. Then set myself small goals to help that journey to the big goal. So smaller goals … Continue reading 2021 GOALS
KNEE TENDONITIS UPDATE: Today brings up the 2 month mark since the last time I was able to run. 61 days without being able to run! Just typing that out makes me feel sad. In case you missed my ANOTHER INJURY post, the short of it is, I have tendonitis in my left knee. It has been a difficult 2 months trying to adapt to … Continue reading INJURY & COVID UPDATE
It is obvious to anyone who knows me that I love the New York City Marathon. Despite living in Cheshire UK, the New York City Marathon is my most run race having run the 2017 New York City Marathon, 2018 New York City Marathon and 2019 New York City Marathon as well as the 2020 Virtual New York City Marathon (in Scholar Green). I have … Continue reading I LOVE NEW YORK CITY…. MARATHON
This is a quick run through of the shoes I have or planned to run in during 2020. Until I pulled them all together for this post I didn’t think I had used that many shoes, oops. It also appears I have a Nike problem too. Let me know what shoes you have been running in during 2020, there are soooo many to choose from … Continue reading MY 2020 RUNNING SHOE ROTATION
It has now been 5 weeks and 1 day since I last went out for a run. I had always planned to take a full two week break after running the Virtual New York City Marathon on the 18th October. I like to have a break at the end of each year to give the body some time to recover before starting to chase new … Continue reading ANOTHER INJURY!
This is starting to feel like Groundhog Day! Third virtual marathon in two weeks and fourth in six weeks after running the virtual Boston Marathon in 3:03.34, virtual London Marathon in 3:05.05 and virtual Chicago Marathon in 3:01.12. Don’t worry, this is my final virtual marathon, of 2020 at least, hopefully, we can get back to see real racing next year. So the thing I … Continue reading VIRTUAL NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2020 RECAP
The Cheshire Runner. 