Race Reviews

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 ...

Last Saturday (7th September) I ran my first trail race in a long time. It was the Maverick Original Series Somerset event and its left me loving the trail life! I'd been looking forward to this event for a while as I'm predominantly a road based runner. I've done a ...

At last years Bridgwater half marathon I found out just how unfit I was while coming back from injury. Returning from said injury was tough. You could say its been a year in the making as I've been eyeing this race ever since last year. I don't tend to dwell ...

Booking Wessex 10k was a bit of a last minute decision. I had planned to run Totnes 10k on the Sunday but left it too late to enter. So with that race sold out, I entered Wessex 10k on the Saturday instead. The race was held in Somerton in a ...

Last Saturday night I made my track debut at the Bristol and West Fast 5000s event. Regular readers/followers will know this is the race I've been training for over the last 6 weeks or so. The event was put on by Bristol and West running club and held at the ...

I had high hopes of a PB going into Exeter 10k. My training had been going well and on the day, the weather was much cooler than the previous days. This race was essentially preparation for the following week's 5000m track race. However, as I hadn't ran a fast and ...

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 ...

Taunton half marathon became my secondary target race for this spring when I failed to PB at Newport half marathon. My primary target is of course Newport marathon but Simon and I have also been working towards a half marathon PB before that race. Taunton half is a race I've ...

Reading half marathon is a race I was supposed to do last year. Just like Newport half marathon, it fell victim to the snow. The event organisers then proceeded to handle the cancellation of the race poorly. Every other race that weekend was cancelled on the Saturday but Reading wasn't ...