PB
Back on the start line!
I crossed my first finish line in over three months on Friday – placing first female vet in the Rye Summer Series 5km. It was a long way off my PB, but this was one race that was all about the taking part. Not only because it was my first, somewhat tentative, outing since my [...]
Marathon wisdom part 7: stay true to your taper
If you are running the London Marathon you should be well in to your tapering period now. But I fear many aspiring marathoners are not. I did Paddock Wood Half Marathon yesterday (a new PB! 1.32.07) and heard many runners chatting about how they were doing London in two weeks’ time, including the guy who [...]
My fastest 10km
More evidence that getting older needn’t mean getting slower (this is getting to be something of an obsession!) – I achieved a new 10km PB on Sunday, running the friendly and well-marshalled Meridian 10km in Greenwich Park. The conditions were perfect – cold and clear – but even Cambridge Harriers’ superb organisational skills couldn’t remove that long [...]
Life begins at 40…
to decline, that is! Or so say the experts from two different realms of science. First, research from the exercise and health science department at Bristol University warns that physical deterioration – including higher fat deposits and muscle mass decline - accelerates when we reach our mid 40s and that people who do nothing to address this sorry situation [...]
Girl power!
Last Sunday, I and 7 women from the Hackney Marshes Women’s Running Network group joined 17,000 other women in Hyde Park for the Adidas Women’s Challenge, a 5km race (that’s us on the left). For some of my group, it was a debut performance, for others it was an opportunity to improve (3 achieved new [...]