With a shiny new year, comes a shiny new set of goals to think about. In January everyone is all about getting fit, which, like I said last week, is a rubbish ... Read More...
We're nearly 10 days into a shiny new year that started with everyone feeling sluggish and bloated and swearing that this really IS the year when they're going... Read More...
It's been 3 years since I last ran the Trowse 10k. Coinciding, I would guess, with the time that they moved the run from Easter weekend in Spring, to Halloween... Read More...
The weekend just gone was shaping up to be a busy one. It was the opening weekend of Norwich Cocktail Week, on Saturday we were booked to run the Clapham Tough... Read More...
Ah, Run Norwich. Every year I wonder why I keep signing up for you?
Is it that I feel I deserve some kind of mid-summer punishment by running 6 miles I have... Read More...
For absolutely YEARS I've wanted some decent weights at home.
I live in a terraced house with no basement and no garage. Our spare room is an office and the... Read More...
Last year I headed back to the place I grew up, the Isle of Sheppey, to complete the Island Run 10k for the first time. As well as the momentous and historic o... Read More...
If there's one thing I noticed at the end of this Roller Derby season, it's that my body desperately needed a break. Playing a contact sport is tough, and pla... Read More...
Oh, hai there winter!
In the last month I have realised that:
My winter coat needs dry cleaning.
I do not have any non-laddered "natural" tights for ... Read More...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.
There are awareness-raising events held all across the country and it's time to have a bit of an eye-opening chat a... Read More...
One day I will start a race story with the words "I was feeling well trained and confident".
Sadly this is not that day.
Marriott's Way is my favourite 10... Read More...
Next year I turn 40.
I'm finding it vaguely worrying, and I wasn't sure why.
I was 33 when I started running, I didn't discover Roller Derby till I was 35... Read More...
