This time next month (ignoring time differences), I’ll be forcing myself to go to sleep in a hotel room somewhere in Time Square. I’d have carb loaded myself silly and annoyed everyone by stressing out about anything and everything for the next day… The New York marathon… race number 30.
How have we got to this position? One month to go but longing for more time… Continue reading
Race: Race the train (Bury to Rawtenstall)
Distance: 10.4 miles
Date: 10th June 2018
Supporting Runners: N/A
Fundraising to date: £3,650
Finishing Time: 01:47:43
It’s taken me a good few days to get over this race so apologies again for the delay in the write up.
But before I discuss the torture that was ‘Race the Train’, I wanted to discuss some exciting 30for30 news…
Race: ChocAthlon
Distance: 9km
Date: 7th April 2018
Supporting Runners: Jemma Love, Rob Jones, Tom Kharchi
Fundraising to date: £1,885
Finishing Time: Somewhere around 1 hour 20mins?
Once again I am late to complete the write up for my latest run. I had a very busy weekend celebrating a friends engagement, nursing a particularly bad hangover and staying up ridiculously late to watch WrestleMania 🤔 .. Which now leaves me writing this blog on what happens to be “National Sibling Day”. Continue reading
Race: Wilmslow half marathon
Distance: 13.1 miles
Date: 18th March 2018
Supporting Runners: N/a
Fundraising to date: £1,710
Finishing Time: 01:59:56
It’s been 6 weeks since race number 10 and lots of anticipation and prep for the 2nd half marathon of the 30for30 challenge.
I’ve never ran Wilmslow half marathon before, and I was quick to sign up for this one having heard good things about it. I’d also planned to run 2 half marathons in March, in a bid to make things a little more impressive for the fund raising side of things… Continue reading
So…I ended up celebrating one of my last precious weekend lie-ins of the next 12months by getting up and…going on a 6mile run(?!)… I have now learned that if I am going to have half the chance of completing this challenge and actually enjoying it, then I shouldn’t drink a bottle of wine and go to bed at 1am the night before a big race. Continue reading
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