It’s been a while since I’ve written a post for the website. Despite that I have been running quite a bit. I started off the year running 10Ks and 1/2s and then went on to run long trail races from March-July. I wanted to get in lots of hill running over the summer but work
I signed up for this mid-afternoon race sometime in early spring when it was blowing a gale and still rather chilly out. But the weather has changed quite remarkably since then and so it was with some trepidation that I lined up along with 100 other runners under the blazing mid-afternoon sun in 37 degree
I’ve finally managed to tackle a marathon and to be honest it’s all a bit of a blur, with the exception of the pain towards the end of it. I’m hoping that some of the details come back as I write this! After 14 weeks and a little less than 1000km of training, Sunday was
I’ve been meaning to write a race report for a while now, but there’s been little time since moving here. I’ve found some gorgeous hills about 15 mins run from the flat so I’m well chuffed! However, last week a friend asked me if I’d join him for th Bilbao Night Half Marathon so I
It’s been some time since I’ve written a post for the website, but it’s also been some time since my last race. I’ve had a few, but nothing noteworthy. I’ve been training for the Barcelona Marathon at the end of March, so for once I actually feel like I’m doing some proper running preparation, as
I’d registered for this trail race (13.3 km / 350m ascent) during a miserable week in Glasgow, where I’d returned from all of my morning runs completely drenched, and hadn’t really thought about how difficult it would be to run under the stifling August sun in Spain. In Zaragoza the temperatures had been as high
Despite the heavy clouds, the weather held out for the race today and what a wee belter it was too. Apparently this is the first time the race has been run in almost a decade and it’s a new route of ’10km plus a wee bit more’ which actually equates to 14.2km, i.e. quite a
Given the number of hill races on this weekend it wasn’t a surprise that there were only three Westies running in last night’s Calderglen 10K Trail Race. This was my first time running this one and I met Don at the start who described the course to me. I did the first 1km loop as
What a morning for a race. The weather was gorgeous and that didn’t make it easy on the runners flying round the loch at Strathclyde Park last Sunday morning. I did this race a few years ago and despite being forward and reverse loops of the loch, it’s a great wee race. There were 164