I’ve just had the best choccy milk ever. Not one of your fancy lardy shop bought numbers but one that Anne made me, melting plain chocolate powder in a bit of hot water before adding the cold milk, when I called to say I was five minutes away. Simple as. But, coming in after a… Continue reading 10K Training: Wk 1 – Keep the Chocolate Coming
Author: theleadlesspencil
I started blogging to practise using that writing 'muscle'. And it's made me realise that I keep banging on about the same subjects: mainly 'running', sometimes about what I'm reading, and, even more occasionally, where I'm going.
Wirral Multi-Terrain – Arrowe Park
What is one of the cardinal rules of running a long-distance race? Don’t go off too fast too soon. What did I do yesterday evening in the final Wirral Multi-Terrain event? Go off like a galloping heffalump, huffing and puffing before I got round the first corner. Gathering runners and clouds But it’s so exciting!… Continue reading Wirral Multi-Terrain – Arrowe Park
Thursday Cycle Ride: A Wet One
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Or should that be ‘what doesn’t drown you …’? Well, to be fair, we were due an opening in the heavens after all the clement days we’ve had on the cycle rides, and the runs that I’ve been on. I can’t remember the last time I came home… Continue reading Thursday Cycle Ride: A Wet One
Short Term Goals – Training Plans
I am going to attempt to follow a training plan. Now you might have assumed that that’s something I do all the time with all the races I partake in. Errr…no. What I normally do, is just go out and run, sporadically, doing my best to slowly get within the ballpark figure of the distance… Continue reading Short Term Goals – Training Plans
Lost and Last
I’ve spent the last two hours, looking all over the house for my trail shoes. If found, please return How can a pair of hot pink (when they’re not muddy) trainers get lost in a small three-bedroomed house that, in my mind, isn’t overly cluttered. Evidently, we’re going to have to bring forward the spring… Continue reading Lost and Last
Another Bike Ride
I have just done a big thing. I have just now, booked a place on my first marathon next year!!! In Manchester, on 16th April 2023. Oh my giddy aunt. How scary is that! It’s a crazy thing to do, especially on the back of being absolutely knackered after today’s cycle ride with PROBs (Pensby… Continue reading Another Bike Ride
Welsh Rare Bits
We met a man, today, called Ken. Ken was sitting on the prom admiring the view of the waves gently rolling into Trearddur Bay on Holy Island, off Anglesey. The sun was streaming, in contrast to the forecast, and a few families were ambling along the sand, letting their dogs and toddlers expend their energy.… Continue reading Welsh Rare Bits
Caernarfon Half Marathon
Well that was tough. There is definitely a lot of work to do before my marathon(s) next year, but for now I am putting my feet up for a week or so, after that hot and a little bit hilly race. I don’t have my official chip time yet, but my Runkeeper App has tipped… Continue reading Caernarfon Half Marathon
Long Term Goals
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com In two days’ time, I’ll be toeing the line at Caernarfon Castle for my second Half Marathon of the year. Well, to be honest, I won’t even see the start line until I’ve shuffled forward with the back markers a few minutes after the gun, but you know what I… Continue reading Long Term Goals
Rewind South Festival
I had a lie-in this morning. After a whirlwind of a weekend it was well needed and shows I’m getting old! It began with a stressful few moments on Thursday afternoon when I pulled up my booking details for The Catherine Wheel Hotel in Henley-on-Thames, only to discover that I’d made a bit of an… Continue reading Rewind South Festival
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