As most people do, I have bad dreams from time to time – the bothersome little dreams that haunt you all day long: Showing up to a…
I have just completed my slowest-ever 10K race and I don’t know how I feel about that. I am embarrassed and humiliated – and very angry with…
Five weeks from tomorrow, I will be running the Edinburgh Marathon. I am, to say the least, unprepared. But I’m not about to let a lack…
Yesterday’s news of the bombings in the final stretch of the Boston Marathon has shaken me. Like many runners, the shock of it all has been hard to comprehend.…
There was an interesting piece in The Guardian’s Running Blog yesterday about running with music. The post offered insights from two runners – a pro-music runner and a no-music runner – and…
I have finally managed to complete my first race of 2013 as part of my Race a Month Challenge. The race, the Buchlyvie 10K, was meant to take place on…
With February fast approaching its end, I am saddened to report that I have still not managed to run a race as part of my 2013 Race a…
Two years ago, I decided to sign up for my “one and only” marathon. And I ran that marathon and insisted I would never do one again. And…
It would seem that I’m really struggling with my running goals these days because not only did I fail on my last two races of 2012, but my…
I am so totally exhausted. But I’m so glad for the exhaustion because I’ve had a great day out with a friend. As you may…
I failed ever-so-slightly in my 2012 Race a Month Challenge, but I enjoyed it so much that I’m challenging myself to the same feat for…
I suppose it’s time I acknowledge that my 2012 Race a Month Challenge wasn’t as successful as I’d hoped. However, I am still calling it…
Well, that’s the Loch Ness Marathon done, and I am pleased to say that I improved my time over last year. The weather was pretty…
In about 24 hours, I will be running my second marathon. I know I’d said I was only ever doing one, but I was kind…
Today was fabulous, even as I sit here with aching muscles and feel completely wrecked. The day started well, after a fantastic night’s sleep in…
Today was Race Number Nine in my 2012 Race a Month Challenge and I’m pretty excited about it. It was the Great Scottish Run half…
Today was the Drymen 10K in, well, Drymen, Scotland. It was also race Number 8 in my 2012 Race a Month Challenge. It was also…
Sometimes I wonder if I could become a reluctant hermit, living in my own little hermitage, hiding away from society, and sulking away my life…
Today was race number seven in my 2012 Race a Month Challenge. And if you didn’t guess it from the title of this post, it…
It’s 30 June; the last day of the first half of 2012 and the halfway point for my 2012 Race a Month Challenge. Of course,…