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: 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, [...]
Resources for buggy runners I’ve been running with my buggy for the past month now. That by no means makes me an expert, but I know some women who are. So if you’re gearing up to take your baby out running, here’s some advice. Tips from me Before you’re ready to start running with the [...]
Simplyhealth Great Team Relay 2018 parkrun done, it was time to pin on an actual number and line up for a race. I’d been invited to take part in the Simplyhealth Great Team Relay, an event requiring a team of four runners to run 5k each round the Olympic park, passing a baton between them. [...]
Life post pregnancy: running update My baby is now six months old and last week I ran my first parkrun. I could have run one sooner - I’ve been running 5k and longer non-stop for a few months now - but my plan had always been to wait until I was ready, in body and [...]
How I plan my training Last week I shared an image on my Instagram stories of my training plan. A couple of people messaged me, surprised that I use Excel for this. And maybe I’m a Luddite who is behind the times of running training plan wizardry, but I actually find this the best way [...]
