My watch told me I’d covered 50k and I was inching my way up a particularly steep and muddy hill – on a day characterised by steep muddy hills this one stood out as being particularly horrible. So slowly was I moving that the map on my watch kept flipping directions Read more…
Easter Sunday 2024 I had entered Gloucester half moreover as a “training run” for the bigger picture and goal for the 2024 season and to comfortably get the distance under my belt and to work on a pacing strategy. In the past I had only actually completed 2 half marathons, Read more…
The Cotswold Cross sportive was a race I was supposed to do back in 2020, in fact was the reason I bought my ribble gravel bike! Covid unfortunately put an end to that grand plan but a couple of weeks ago I saw it advertised again and, after a quick Read more…
This was meant to be my Strava notes post race, but then realised it was getting a little long and so it’s become an accidental race report. This is the “Berkeley 20 & Half Fission” race. A small race down at Berkeley Nuclear Power Station, and consists of a 20 Read more…
My second time doing runwalkcrawls excellent Celtic Trail Races on a “sunny” December Wales morning. After not an amazing year of racing, I wanted to get something in the calendar to prevent or at least partially mitigate the standard winter rut but was umming and aaahing.. So.. one evening in Read more…
I have wanted to try Swimrun for a while – it should be a perfect fit for me because I love trail running and open water swimming. Add in the Lake District (which I also love) and the Coniston Swimrun seemed like my perfect event! Due to an injury-induced lack Read more…
Having arrived on the Friday afternoon, I found several other triathletes at the same camp site. We were able to compare previous experiences and talk about what to expect on the day. Three of them were more used to fell running and one had already completed the Roc, England, 2 Read more…
September 3rd 2023 – Spoiler alert… I finished!! BuildupI’d always had the dream of one day completing an IRONMAN event, not just any Long Course event but a full on proper branded IRONMAN event. However so often things remain a dream unless you actually do something about them. Watching a Read more…
River Dart 10 km challenge. Having undertaken a mind numbing 10Km swim at lake 32 earlier in the year, I decided any future distance swims needed to be sea or river, which led me to this event. Seemed a little pricy when booking until I read that all profits go Read more…
