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…
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…
Putting the Fun in Long Runs
I love running, you know I do, but I’ve been finding the long runs during our training for the Yorkshire Marathon quite taxing. Not the running itself particularly. That can be tough at times but, hey, I’ve read Chi Running so I’m good at being Zen about it. I know it’s temporary and can zone…
DIY Reflexology For Runners
Image: aspenfootandankle.com Hopefully your feet don’t look as horrific as these! If you’re training hard though, they’re probably feeling a little the worse for wear. Guest blogger, reflexologist Andrea Morrison, has written a brief how-to guide to DIY reflexology to help you give your amazing feet a little bit of TLC. It includes some handy…
Becoming a Runner: How to Keep Moving!
Thank you to Tees Barrage Parkrun for this photo. Everybody has a run now and then when your feet/body/mind just don’t want to join in the fun (right?) and you just desperately want to stop moving. When you’re a new runner – building up your aerobic, physical and mental strength – these moments come a…
5 Words – What Kind Of Runner Are You?
Recently, we decided to find out exactly who you are – the people who follow our chatter, who comment on our posts, who we tweet with, share our running trials and tribulations with, who cook and eat from recipes we create. People we have a bit of a giggle with and feel we know well….
Guest Post – Run, Baby, Run
This guest post comes from Chloe, who is owner / personal trainer at My Own Gym Women’s in Byron Bay, Australia and mum to two awesome boys. Being fit and active has always been and important part of my life. After falling pregnant with each of my two boys I continued to exercise as long as I could,…
Jane Tomlinson Leeds 10k Race Report
Photo: Zoe Illingworth First, can we just say how much we love this photo by Zoe Illingworth, taken in the seemingly interminable queue for the start line at the Jane Tomlinson Leeds 10k. We had no idea she was taking it (clearly I go around grinning gormlessly all the time…) and only came across it…
Trail run up Roseberry Topping
Since I moved to Teesside earlier this year, I’ve been wanting to run up Roseberry Topping. It’s one of the highest peaks in the North York Moors, and is iconic for people in the area. I was lucky enough to get some new trail shoes this week, and wanted to give them a proper outing….
Becoming a Runner – Getting Kitted Up
Running is a relatively egalitarian sport, with a very easy entry level. You don’t need to muster up a team of people, and you don’t need loads of expensive equipment to get started. When I first started running, I lived in mum’s hand-me-downs for literally everything, but if you’re not blessed with a bonkers-mother-runner like mine,…
Becoming a Runner – 4 Ways to Change Your Mindset to ‘I am a Runner’
I was a very reluctant runner to begin with. If you’d told me even three years ago that I would be running a marathon this year and going running voluntarily 5 days a week, I would have told you to shake your head. Now, I happily lace up my trainers by myself and nip out,…
Edinburgh Marathon Festival – Bibi’s Race Report
Sunday’s Edinburgh Half Marathon was supposed to be my first sub-2hr half. Should be pretty easy when the profile looks like this, right? The biggest race I’ve ever done, the atmosphere was fantastic – kids giving high-fives from the side of the road, runners smiling as we jostled. Everybody putting so much heart into it,…