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What a difference the weather makes! On Friday I went out and did my long run along the North Downs Way.  Armed with my map and GPS I headed along the downs towards Dover.  It was a glorious day and I was feeling very relaxed and just wanted to go...

Life is pretty good at the moment.  With all the ups and downs of the first few months of the year and not feeling particularly positive about how my training was going, I seemed to have turned the corner and enjoying my running once again. Training has been going well since...

I have been quiet for a bit, just wanted to get myself sorted, get back into my training and to be quite honest I wasn't really in the right frame of mind for blogging. Training for the last couple of weeks has gone well, felt good and enjoyed the runs.  On...

Sometimes we all forget just how lucky we are and take an awful lot for granted, I know I do.  We can pop down to the doctors when we're not feeling well, our children are educated, food is easily accessible and those out of work get support from the government,...

Its taper time!!! Training for the week is now finished, all sessions were completed but I'm glad that today is a rest day as my right leg is a bit sore.  Now its time to sort out my kit, find my secret supply of batteries (I have to hide them...

I felt that last week went better, I enjoyed my long runs, legs felt good, although still having issues with the right leg, but  all more positive so won't be pulling out of the TP100 - as someone quite rightly said "man up" Simon from X-Bionics popped round for a chat...

We all have weeks when things just don't go to plan.  Last week was one of those weeks for me.   I didn't enjoy my training it was almost as though my love of running had flown away and gone on holiday. I had my usual two long runs which turned out...

  Feeling knackered, have a few more wrinkles from laughing so much but have just had the most amazing weekend with my crew celebrating our Irish World Record. HWMBO and myself arrived in Dublin late afternoon and after a very pleasant bus ride to our hotel it seemed very natural to go...

Saturday was supposed to be my second long run day, unfortunately my osteopath had tweaked, pulled, hurt and twisted my body into extra-ordinary shapes and told me there I could do anything I liked on Saturday as long as it wasn't running, humph and knickers not happy. What a glorious day...