I'd like to patent what I've come to refer to as the 'chicken and egg approach to PBs'. It's worked pretty well for me so far in that every race I've done has been an improvement on the last. Allow me to explain this almost meaningless and very tenuous metaphor. In my first ever 10k [...]
Aim for the stars, if you miss you might get the moon. But it doesn't always work like that when it comes to running. My marathon time was 4.31.30 - which I was delighted with because I'd not set myself a target other than to finish with under 5 hours being a bonus. Imagine how [...]
Aim for the stars, if you miss you might get the moon. But it doesn't always work like that when it comes to running. My marathon time was 4.31.30 - which I was delighted with because I'd not set myself a target other than to finish with under 5 hours being a bonus. Imagine how [...]
The sun certainly had his hat on yesterday - unfortunately I didn't, as you may remember I threw my cap into the crowd on the home straight of the Brighton Marathon and haven't got round to buying a replacement. This I came to regret yesterday when I lined up for the start of the South London 10k [...]
Last night saw my first post-marathon run - 3 miles around the streets of Wimbledon. It was good to be out in my trainers again. I had 21 days (or 3 weeks if you like) off after the Brighton Marathon and for me that meant complete rest other than a couple of cycles.Some people take more, [...]
Another 10K and a new PB clocked up at the weekend. I took 40 seconds off my previous time but suffered for it. From half way I had to stop about five times for a 20 second walking break because my legs couldn't keep up with the rest of my body. It wasn't fun and [...]
Lazy Girl has been very lazy when it comes to posting lately, but I'm proud to say less lazy when it comes to running.You'll see from this rather snazzy graph that my training has been 'happening' lets say for sake of a better word.Here's how Far I've run for the past five weeks: 7.57M, 5.85M, [...]
My first 10k Hooray for me - I did it. I made it round the Wimbledon 10K in less than an hour only stopping briefly at the top of the hill to let some traffic pass (I was quite pleased to be able to stop for a minute). The last two kilometers were really hard and I [...]
Lazy is as lazy does and recently I've been very lazy. I haven't run in a whole week which is poor.There's a couple of reasons for this that I've used to justify my slackness to myself. Firstly I did plan to run over the weekend but a hangover and helping a friend move flat put [...]
Signing up for a 10k I've bitten the bullet and signed up for a 10K. It's not until October (at least, that's what I told myself as booking it) but that's ONLY about 14 weeks away. I'm now starting to regret it (especially as there's a huge hill involved) so I've roped in my flatmate [...]