Tag: Race
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Windermere Marathon 2024
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Doing the Windermere Marathon was a bit of a no brainer. It starts just 2km from where we stay in Ambleside (we are up there pretty much every month for a weekend) and I had a free race entry with Brathay after volunteering at Langdale Marathon, the hilliest road marathon…
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Steel City 60 2024
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Before The Steel City 60 wasn’t supposed to be my first 60-mile race. I was close to pulling the trigger on the Beacons Way 100k in 2023 but decided that I hadn’t really got my fitness up to snuff to put in a good effort. Then I saw the marketing…
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Manchester Marathon 2024
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The morning started early. A 5 o’clock alarm and double and triple checking that I had everything I needed for the day. There wasn’t really much extra to remember besides the clothes I would be wearing and a few gels to see me through the early aid stations before the…
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Sheffield 10k 2023
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I have done a lot of runs by myself or raced others but still on my own. The Sheffield 10k was different. I would be running with Fi to get her a 10km PB. Both being at the University of Sheffield at the time, me as an employee and Fi…
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Déjà Vu Dash – Groundhog Day 10k
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We didn’t come all the way to Long Beach, LA, for an obscure local 5k/10k/10M/HM race. We are here for Fi’s Orthopaedic Research Conference, and I needed to find things to entertain myself with. $28 later I was signed up to run two out-and-back 5k loops of the beachfront for…
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Trunce #9 2023
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Here we are, the last of the series. I can’t say I’ve been waiting long for it as I’ve only done the last three of the year. But this one is different, it’s fancy dress (optional). Of course, I had to partake. The question was, what was I going to…
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Trunce #8 2023
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After the amount of fun I ended up having at the Trunce it was a no-brainer to return and have another shot. I had set a goal of averaging 5:00/km last time, which is a fair improvement over the 5:05/km I first ran, a full 31 seconds faster. Though I…
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Trunce #7 2023
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I think I have run one ‘fell’ style race. It was up Win Hill god knows how long ago, and I think I did alright (this was before my Strava days), and I distinctly remember nearly obliterating a drystone wall on my descent. I’m not too sure why I haven’t…