Marathon Training Update: Weeks 1-6 I don't know how it happened but somehow it's already week six of my marathon training. It seems to have gone really quickly, but I guess that's what happens when you're just putting one foot in front of another and one run in front of another. So I thought I'd [...]
Setting SMART running goals It’s the time of year when runners set their running goals for the 12 months ahead. Many runners, old and new, will set their intention for the year ahead to run more. But ‘run more’ is not a great goal. Not because running more isn’t a great thing to want to [...]
Running after pregnancy: the first year It’s been a year since I had my son. As cliched as it sounds, it has gone so fast. It’s crazy to think that a year ago we were in hospital with this tiny person who felt so fragile but is now running around pulling everything off my shelves [...]
Keeping hydrated on Water Wednesday Things that runners should have plenty of: sleep, motivation and water. Things I struggle with since becoming a parent: sleep, time to train and keeping hydrated. I was never a massive coffee drinker before I had a baby. But now it’s a regular part of my day. Not so much [...]
Baby to BQ: November running update I finished my half marathon last month, disappointed with the time on the clock but happy with how training had gone. It really couldn’t have been better. The week after the Royal Parks Half I paced the Great South Run, and despite still having the cold I carried round [...]
Baby to BQ: Autumn races and running Hello. It’s been another couple of months, so if you’re not following along on Instagram, which seems to be where I share my running ups and downs these days, here’s what’s been going on. Holiday running I went away to the seaside for a few days and did [...]
Running, babies and sleep This post is in conjunction with TEMPUR® but all thoughts and sleepless nights are my own. Sleep! If there’s one thing new parents love to talk, compare and commiserate about, it’s sleep. This is something I wouldn’t share with my mum friends because 1) I don’t want to jinx it and [...]
Baby to BQ Somehow, when you’re just focussing on putting one foot in front of the other and making it through, you look up and realise weeks have gone by. And that’s how it’s been recently. My baby is nine months and getting to a point where I’ll have to stop referring to him as [...]
Running through the heatwave The other day I was asked to provide some advice on running in the heat for a Huffington Post article. Below are my tips in full... It’s good to have a gym membership for when the weather makes it difficult to run outside. There’s so many low cost gyms around that [...]
British 10k 2018 When I was pregnant, after I’d stopped running, my thoughts were on my return to racing. It had been over a year since I’d really dug deep and raced. I wrote down all my PBs across distances from 5k to half marathon. And then I took a calculator and added 10%. This, [...]
