I feel like I’m in a state of limbo. Having had a week away last week for Anne’s birthday, the plan was to come back and get back into writing mode. However. My book is still with the editor and has been for six weeks and counting. The holdup has been for various reasons, the… Continue reading Limbo Land
Category: Running
Run-Walk-Repeat
My fastest twenty-mile race was back at the beginning of March 2023. I did it in 3:45:35 and if I had carried on that day to run a full marathon there (it was an option) I would have finally achieved my goal of getting a sub five-hour marathon. It was seven loops of a motor… Continue reading Run-Walk-Repeat
Trying To Stay Consistent
It’s always nice on a Sunday afternoon when your week has gone by, pretty much, in the way that you’d hoped. Of course, that assumes that you have set out a plan at the beginning of the week and I have been slack with that of late. A perfect day for Parkrun Aside from one… Continue reading Trying To Stay Consistent
No Time To Shirk
Well, that has been a busy week. I had been giving myself a telling off for not getting out the door for Saturday Parkrun, and while I think my running suffered today because of the lack of activity yesterday, I’m now feeling okay about slacking off a little. Before today I had only run on… Continue reading No Time To Shirk
Four Villages Half Marathon 2026
apologies about the grubbiness - I hadn't showered yet I have never had a blister before. I’ve done one 50K, six marathons and countless half marathons, but I’ve never had an issue with my feet. Even my toenails have stayed on – apart from the time I kicked a log and didn’t like it. But… Continue reading Four Villages Half Marathon 2026
New Year Plans and XC Wins
A few pics from the Loch Ness website I know I said that I’d be continuing my endeavours to improve on my half marathon time this year, but I appear to have changed that thinking slightly. After chatting with some running club buddies about the Loch Ness Marathon for which an advert had appeared in… Continue reading New Year Plans and XC Wins
How Did Those Resolutions Go?
Happy New Year ‘Come, Aunty Rita.’ The twelve-year-old puts her hand out to the fifty-two-year-old in order to gently guide her to the deep end. She’s actually my granddaughter but when I first began assimilating myself into Anne’s family, her parents thought ‘Nannie’ was too old a moniker for a forty-something, and now the ‘Aunty’… Continue reading How Did Those Resolutions Go?
Reach
I’m scrubbing my shoes after yesterday’s cross-country and can’t quite get the chorus of a song out of my head. It’s been rattling around in there all morning and I’m feeling a mixture of slight annoyance and enjoyment as I remember dancing away to it on Friday night. It was possibly because of Friday night… Continue reading Reach
Borders League: Anglesey (again)
Of all the basic mistakes to make, not tying my shoelaces properly before a race is probably the most basic of all. The laces on these shoes are a bit slippy and overly long, so I end up double knotting and then doing another bow (exceedingly long laces). They possibly would have held my foot… Continue reading Borders League: Anglesey (again)
Indecision
It was a struggle to get out the house this morning. Not because I didn’t want to run. It was dry, there were streaks of blue sky, the branches of the trees appeared sedately calm. A very inviting day. No, the reason for the problem was my state of indecision, and it weighed down on… Continue reading Indecision
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