Day 1 – 16/09/22 – Still can’t believe I’m here and taking part in the European Sprint Duathlon Championships as part of the GBR Age-Group Team. Lying in a hospital bed with bilateral wrist fractures after being knocked off my bike 3 years ago I never thought I’d make it here but this is was …
23/7/22 – Today I was sweeper for the 2nd half of the Clyde Stride Ultra Marathon. My friends at Acorn Trails asked if I could assist so I volunteered for sweeping (and not with a brush). I’ve never swept before so it was lovely chatting to the runners and marshals whilst also taking down all …
18/06/2022 – Race write up for the West Highland Way 95 mile ultra. Well, what can I say? It’s been emotional, a once in a lifetime experience (I’m not doing it again unless I’m a support runner) and utterly amazing. The race started at 1am on Sat 18th June from Milngavie.I’d planned a nice relaxing …
05/06/22 – Milngavie Trail Race… great local 8.5mile trail race organised by the local scouts. What’s makes it even better (apart from the best cakes in the world!) is that the start line is less than 400m from my front door. The sun was shining and the start was a great place to catch up …
First year taking part in the Scottish Hill runners Bog and Burn race series. I’d planned to do more by unfortunately only managed three. They are all fab. 11/5/22 Great evening for the Dumyat hill race. Sun was shining, runners were smiling and the hill awaited. I have run this hill lots (usually to kill …
06/08/22 The triple crown is mine (completing The Highland Fling, West Highland Way and Devil in 1 year). Only been waiting 2 years to complete since all 2020 and 2021 events cancelled. I had some unfinished business with the Devil o’ the Highlands Footrace after the heatwave of 2019 and wanted to try again. 69km …
23/04/2022 – This is another local race for me. Registration was the night before at the Burnbrae pub. Can’t beat registering and having a pint at the same time and with wrist band on it was now official, I’m running. Also gave me a chance to look at the La Sportiva and Ultimate Direction kit …
28/08/2022 – Mother and daughter racing today at the New Cumnock triathlon and aquathon. This is set at the open water New Cumnock Swimming Pool. Emily was first up in the aquathon, it was fast with 100m swim then 1.5km run but she smashed it in the T3 category and came in 4th female. No …
Pre race…. First time having to fly to a race… off to Tiree. Warm up was the long walk to gate 1 at Glasgow Airport then onto the teeny tiniest of planes (I don’t do planes). Eldest has taken to tracking flights using the Plane Finder app so was tracking me whilst I was also …
12/02/2022 – 3 is definitely the magic number with 3rd place in the D33 today. My adventure started yesterday, heading up to Aberdeen I had a pit stop in Perth to help Active Root who hadn’t managed to get their kit up to the race. Couldn’t leave us runners without Active Root so took delivery …