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It's taken me 6 months and a couple of attempts to write this post. It took some time to process it all amid a lot of other things I had going on in my life at the time, but here it is, my London marathon experience. Similarly, to Berlin marathon ...

In 2019 I entered the ballot for Berlin marathon fully expecting to be unsuccessful. I based this expectation on the stories I'd heard about how hard it can be to get into London marathon via the ballot. My assumption was Berlin would be the same, how wrong I was! With ...

The results of consistent strength work were really big for me in the last year. This has been evidenced in both my running results and changes to my body. Those changes have become more apparent in recent months when I combined strength work and running with a cleaner diet. Nutrition ...

Ok, so here's the final part of my mini blog series looking back at 2021. In the previous two posts, the second of which you can find here, I talked about my ultra marathons. Now, its time to move back to road racing. I hadn't properly "raced" on the roads ...

With the first part of 2021 covered in my previous post, its time to move on to what happened next. First of all, I took the opportunity to rest up after my solo ultra but was soon back at it. I started to ease myself back into training with some ...

It's been well over a year since I last posted on here despite wanting to do so for the last 6 months or so. 2021 was a big year for me. This was mostly due to the lifestyle changes I made which massively contributed to a successful year with my ...

I've run just over a mile, I'm already soaked through and my arms are cold. Steph, her mum and Poppy have just gone past in the warm comfort of a car and it's dawning on me that its going to be a long and very wet morning of running. So ...

Socially distanced racing is a concept I don't think many people would even have thought of, let alone participated in before March 2020. However, for those of us who wish to get back to running races, it seems to be the only viable option. On Saturday 15th August, I ran ...

So what do you do after spending the first quarter of the year training for a marathon? Well for me at least, it was to change tact altogether and drop down the distances to 5k & 10k. The plan was a summer of speed. I haven't blogged since my marathon, ...

Making my marathon debut has been a year in the making. After having to withdraw from last years Newport Marathon due to injury, I was seeking redemption this time around. After my experience last year I was determined to make it to the start line in one piece! Despite a ...