Planning training for my second 95mile race. Unfortunately, it was cancelled due to covid, but always 2021!
Tag: motivation
Giving Back: The Spine Race
Journal blog of the 6 days I spent on the spine race media team in 2019. The year Jasmin Paris won!
Van living Q&A
Every van dweller is different, we converted our van on a budget so skimped on certain things (no toilet, shower, fridge or built in heater) and we also work full time in London. We get asked the same questions about the practicalities of living in a van. I can tell you the answers are the … Continue reading Van living Q&A
To Build a Home
Written in the back of a ‘colour away stress’ book is a wish list. Words across a page of black and white waves written in the winter after our first West Highland Way in 2016. Written in a cold, damp and dark rental property in Cambridge, on that list is a van. Max was in … Continue reading To Build a Home
Why run so far?
On my longest training run so far I had the distant and quiet thoughts of quitting. Dropping out of the WHWrace, for surely I could not succeed, or I would hurt myself trying. I cannot shut off these voices, they are natural for survival and as I get closer to the event, and deeper into … Continue reading Why run so far?
WHW Race Training… what next?
I have ended my 3 month base phase (I will post numbers in next blog entry) and I am using this first week of April as a time to reflect. This weekend I was at the Fling training camp and ran 34 miles on the course. I expected the 34miles to go well, to be … Continue reading WHW Race Training… what next?
Training Plan: 5 months to WHWrace!
Summary of my training for the West Highland way Race - 96miles on 23-24th June.
Long Distances
Thoughts on shared experience, trust and story telling along long distance events and Ways.
