There’s a question I get asked a lot. What motivates me? What gets me up in the morning for a 6:45am gym session? Or a 5:45am run? How do I do it 6 days aContinue reading
Category: Sport
Sunday Sounds: April
Sunday is my run day – its the one day a week, come rain or shine, hangover or late night, I’ll throw my earphones in and hit the pavements. Judging by the other runners, cyclistsContinue reading
Marathon Monday: Taper, taper, taper
Chances are, if you know a runner, you’ll have heard them talk about taper week. This is basically where we’ve put months of training in, weights, running, body work, abs work and a week toContinue reading
Marathon Monday: I Will if You Will
6 weeks to go and I’ve done it. I’ve hit my 20 mile goal – further than I ran in training for my first marathon. Yes, it was hard and at points painful as myContinue reading
Marathon Monday: Dream Believe Achieve
Seven weeks to go. And I had a bit of a revelation. I’ve finally relaxed into my training. First time I did this sort of distance, for Preston Guild Marathon, I reached the 30km pointContinue reading
Marathon Monday: Matcha Green Tea
8 weeks to go. My heart leaps to my throat every time I remember that. Thankfully after last week’s disaster, I hit 30km this weekend (18 miles or so in old money), so I’m backContinue reading
Marathon Monday: gels, blocks and sweet stuff
So, where are we up to? The Justgiving site for Forever Manchester is up here, the Team Honk one is up here, and it looks like I’ll be running wearing a tea dress on 8thContinue reading
Multipower Fit Giveaway
Since kicking off my training, protein shakes have once again become an essential part of my life. Around 20g of protein in the 2 hour period following a training session is shown to boost muscleContinue reading
Marathon Monday: Halfway there
This week I finally hit the half marathon distance. Well, if we’re being picky, just over at 22km (close enough). Unfortunately, the weather decided not to play ball and rather than chance a second soakingContinue reading