Plantar Fasciitis- healing the heel
Note: this is not a scientific blog and it’s mainly about the progress of my PF but also the mental affects of rest As I write I’m tentatively upbeat about […]
Tag Archives: ultra
Escape – An emergency day off.
Lockdown is rubbish eh? I live in Edinburgh, Scotland where we’ve been bound by law to stay within our council boundary since November. Before that, it was asked of us […]
Through the Lairig Ghru
It sounds so grand, doesn’t it. Hard to work out how to pronounce I guess. La-Rig Gr-roo or something like that. It sounds better in a Scots accent than my […]
Running The Cateran Trail
We’re half way, or so we thought, as Ian and I were sitting on a bench in the warm sun in Altyh we were contemplating the reasons why we’d chosen […]
Glen Tilt to Linn of Dee
It’s been 12 years since I last came here, our plan then was to hike half way to Braemar, camp and then hike out the next day. It’s a popular […]
Scotland Coast to Coast
The forecast was for mist in the morning and cloudy at lunchtime with a Yellow weather warning for heavy rain from 1pm. It’s 8am and I’m at Ardgay on the […]
Why am I running 100km?
Well, it’ll actually be around 105km by the time I’m complete. The simple answer to this is because I want to. I’ve never ran this distance before in any shape […]
Remembering the running tricks
I’ve become a sloppy runner. I don’t know if others who run ultras get like this or if it is just me but I don’t really have a training plan, […]
Running the length of Scotland
482miles / 770 km 119hours of running 18 different days over 11 Months 21000m of ascent. Running the length of Scotland. Little did I know that when I signed up […]
Running Scotland
Little did I know that when I signed up to run the Cape Wrath Ultra that it would lead to many more adventures and personal challenges. I met some wonderful […]
