My Cape Wrath Ultra Story
I’ve been toying with this for a couple of days, how do I do the experience justice in a blog? How do I put down in words the emotions, the […]
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2 days to go… until I start running 400kms
Twelve Months in the planning and it is only 2 days until I start. HOW? How did it get so soon? My mind is doing the typical thing of flipping […]
8 days remain
8 days remain. The same number of days I will be running for. Excited but scared. I’ve been fighting a cold. This always happens when I wind down. Whether tapering […]
Packing for 8 days of running
I swear I pack less when I go on holiday for 2 weeks, but I have just packed 20kgs of running stuff that I need and may need for 8 […]
I am not superhuman
Some more musings of a tapering ultra runner… Shhh! Don’t tell anyone. But I am just like you. I am not different and don’t have any natural ability. I have […]
Thoughts from a tapering ultra runner…
13 days and I will be running in my first ever multistage/ multi-day run which will cover 400kms in 8 days. The Cape Wrath Ultra is a beast but an […]
Confidence broken
And just as the world was looking up and I wrote a blog about confidence I only go and get injurated*. 😦 *new word I slipped on a paving stone […]
Confidence Herring Road
I’ve had some doubts of late whether I’d be able to complete this 8day Ultra in May. My usual visualisation of the race that I do to mentally prepare myself […]
An 80km week
I stretched the 80km over 5 days fairly evenly. Partly as I was due to be travelling this weekend but also because the snow came and I wanted to run […]
Huge training week
This week I reached a total of 75 km in training which is by far my furthest of this training cycle. It’s been a good week of being able to […]
Run Spud Run! 