As the mornings are slowly getting darker and the sun is disappearing earlier each day, its beginning to feel like autumn is coming. I love Autumn. The leaves falling and crisp cool mornings. Bonfires and fireworks. It’s one of my favourite times of year and another reason is because of the autumn half marathon season. The first half marathon I…
I think at one point of another, every runner has fallen out of love with running. Sometimes it’s due to an injury. More often than not it’s simply because you’ve got bored of it. You no longer feel inspired to pound the pavements and you haven’t hit a PB in a while either. It’s happened to me before and I’m…
When you look down at your watch and see that you’re on track for a PB, that’s when the magic starts to happen. The desire to cross the finish line becomes stronger than the pain in your legs so you begin to push harder. And you keep going until you reach the finish line because the moment you realise that you are…
In a little over 3 week’s time, it’ll be race day. I’ll be taking to the streets of Berlin to complete my first half marathon of the year. And although It’ll be my third half marathon, I know that a mixture of excitement and nerves will accompany me around the course. You can never shake those pre race nerves…
Running a half marathon is probably one if the biggest mental and physical challenges that I have had to face thus far. It required commitment and relentless dedication, especially when an old injury began to resurface on race day. I wanted to quit but I was 3 miles from home and nothing was going to stop me crossing the finishing line.…
