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Finding forward
Posted on July 22, 2018 Leave a Comment
It’s been 6 weeks would you believe it?! 6 whole weeks since i took a super duper run around rome and realised I was capable of moving again. Since then I’ve been running with zero pain, well not zero pain, but only the good pain, the pain that means your pushing and working hard. I can’t […]
Notes from an injured runner (on the road to recovery)
Posted on May 11, 2018 Leave a Comment
When I woke up and put weight on my leg to find shooting sensations of pain in my calf and ankle I was pretty sure I’d broken it, I couldn’t put weight through it, I couldn’t even rest it on something like the bed without being in agony, I must’ve broken it, right?! Wrong! I […]
Worthing 10K & Race Day Disappointment
Posted on June 8, 2016 6 Comments
On the weekend it was my first official race since the marathon. A nice and easy, flat local route; short distance, full of friends, PB in the bag, what could go wrong? Turns out quite a lot. Before I get in to me, let’s talk about the race. It was sold out way sooner than […]
So You Think You Can Run?..
Posted on November 26, 2015 Leave a Comment
Running; we all learn how to do it as kids’ right? It’s not that tricky once you’ve mastered the whole standing on 2 feet thing. That’s what I thought and probably what we all think, turns out we’re wrong and that training errors actually account for over 60% of all running injuries, and technique equates to […]
My Marathon Diaries – 5
Posted on October 15, 2015 Leave a Comment
This is basically me last week, comedy fall at its best. Well for me at its worst because I smashed my knee cap in to the concrete with my whole body weight behind it. Ouch! I felt stupid, really really stupid. I was late and flustered and not paying attention and did I mention stupid. […]