You know how much we love running but, well, a change is as good as a rest and all that. We do like to treat ourselves to a bit of cross training too. Plus, let’s be honest, it’s hard to keep pounding out the miles in depths of winter and, while it hasn’t been particularly cold here in…
Just Keep Swimming
Until about a year ago, the only time I ever went swimming was on holiday. When I was on holiday, I loved it – like in the lake on Vancouver Island in the picture above, the cobalt sea in Croatia, or dips in pools in Greece – but I would forget all about it when I came…
Fit Is For Life, Not Just For New Year
We don’t like the ‘new you’ business that saturates the media at the beginning of the year. What’s wrong with the old you?! OK, so maybe we don’t always look after ourselves well enough. Perhaps we eat too much over the holidays. Maybe we don’t exercise enough when there are so many other things going on….
Becoming a Runner – My Story
We’ve been asked quite a lot recently which of the two of us started running first, and got the other into it. I can say, hand on heart, that I would not have bothered with the thing if it weren’t for my little mother. For years, the extent of my relationship with running was sitting…
Running a Marathon is Hard : 5 Stages
Intellectually, I knew that running a marathon would be hard. I pictured blisters, sore legs, maybe being sick a bit. In the end, the physical wasn’t actually the worst of it. I had trained well, had some great kit and have learned (sometimes the hard way) how to fuel myself through a run. I was…
Running Away From Home: Barcelona
I love not marathon training! It was a bit (I imagine) like trying for a baby: worthwhile, and with a great goal in mind, but with a bit of the fun taken out of the process. </end of comparison> I’ve just been doing 3-5 milers, a few times a week, at the pace I want…
Yorkshire Marathon Race Report
Sunday was an emotional day for us. After months of training, it was finally time to get our tried and tested running gear on, slap on a bit of vaseline, fill our pockets with gels and Shot Bloks and run the Yorkshire Marathon. It felt like we’d been on this trajectory forever but, despite our…
Mile 20 Hero : Terry Fox
This Sunday, we’ll be running the Yorkshire Marathon and I’m… apprehensive, to say the least. Though I’ve trained well, had a very successful 22 mile run and have got my nutrition strategy in the bag, I’m still worried. The great guys at Marathon Talk say – “Half of 26.2 is 20”, and I’ve heard that you…
The Joy of Tapering
After months of training and many miles of running, it almost time for the Yorkshire Marathon. Hopefully, this time next week we’ll be laying with our legs up the wall and, despite the tricky angle, sipping champagne. Bendy straws exist for a reason. It’s tapering time, when our schedules say we should run less, eat…
Big Autumn Exercise Plans, Post-Marathon
I have a confession – I’m happily married to marathon training but we’ve been together a long time now and I have a bit of a roving eye. It’s the Yorkshire Marathon soon (my first ever!) and after months of running day after day, I fantasise about cheating with Zumba… I go into reveries about…
The Art Of Running – With Glow Sticks…
Once a year, Leeds city centre becomes awash with light and colour. It’s Light Night, you see, and artists, performers and all manner of entertainers fill the city with light installations of one form or another. This year, for the first time but definitely not the last, Veggie Runners were added into the mix. Working…
Running Mix – Making Up For Teenage Crime
Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for a good-time run – David H Allison, a god among running men, has made a new running mix! It’s as brilliant as the other playlists he has so kindly shared with us. Mixes so good they’ll have you dancing when you should be running and vice versa. David’s a…
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