Author: mimi

WOW what an amazing few weeks I have had.  Holiday, glorious sunshine, running in a different location and my 51st Birthday. I had a marvellous holiday near Venasque in France, a stunning location and some lovely running round the hills at the back of the villa, although with a heavy pack...

The past couple of weeks has been a whirlwind of running, talking, more running and in between catching up with friends and attempting to be a domestic goddess to keep HWMBO happy! My training is going OK although I'm struggling to do more than 4 hours with my pack, not because...

There are good days, bad days and marvellous days, I seem to have had rather a lot of marvellous days recently! A great friend of mine Sarah Russell asked me if I would go and talk to her group of runners "Sarahs Runners", join them for a training session first followed...

My body has definitely enjoyed the past 10 days with no running. The first week I was overwhelmed with tiredness and on a couple of occasions had to take myself off to bed for a couple of hours in the afternoon so I had enough energy for the evening, it...

The last four miles the lights went out, all I could do was put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward. If Becky said something as far as I was concerned I was smiling, apparently there was no expression on my face.  I couldn't see...

The nerves are kicking in, must mean it's nearly time to run. Last week I did a 3 hour run a couple of speed sessions and an hours recovery run, this week has been marvellous, two 5k's one easy and the other at a faster pace finishing with a sports massage...

When I told my husband that I was going to be doing the GUCR this year he asked "why, you have already done it twice"? I told him that I was going to be doing the Double, he just sighed and said "no surprise there then" For those of you who...

My face is one huge smile today as I went out for my first run in a week feeling a wee bit nervous about my left leg and all seemed to be fantastic - PHEW now I feel that its all systems go for the Double GUCR in 8 days...