Laganside 10k

Another weekend means another race! Two weeks prior to one of the most poorly run events I had ever encountered (I didn’t even get into the health and safety issues I had on that one). Victoria and I got to run in the Laganside 10km race in sunny Belfast (not a lie it was quite...

A review of a poorly organised running race

Yesterday I participated in the Connswater 10km race and I have to say it was one of the greatest shambles of a race that I have ever been involved in. This isn't going to be a positive post sadly, but I feel it needs to be said as I have never seen so many disappointed...

If you don’t get a medal did you really run that race? The allure of medals in running.

Hello one, hello all! Today I want to chat about the beautiful allure of obtaining medals that I have (and hopefully you have, as I don't want to be alone) in races. Nice race you got here, but where is my medal? This thought crossed my mind a year ago when I was browsing through...

Weight loss to Christmas challenge: 10th – 12th November

Welcome back to my little series about as you can guess from the title... Losing weight before Christmas! To catch up on why I am doing this have a little read here... it's okay, I'll wait. So the gist of the challenge is that I want to lose around 30lbs before December 25th. It is a...

Are you a morning or an evening runner?

I run at various points throughout the day and I wondered when are my best times for running. Obviously, races are almost always in the morning so it would be natural to assume that the best time for running is in the morning. The morning struggle I tend to go straight out for a run...

Running: Races in August and September

The next couple of months are going to hopefully be filled with me on the roads running up a lot of miles and hopefully getting a few medals. As I am doing quite a few races over the next 8 weeks I thought I would share with you some of them and if you know...