When I signed up for the race it seemed so far away. My place was confirmed in December and now the race is this Saturday! My training has gone well, but not as well as I feel the build up to The Calderdale Way Ultra last year (2016 – Run Ultra) went. Last year I … Continue reading Final Thoughts Before The West Highland Way Race
This was going to be a tough... This week was planned into my training schedule for a little while. With working 6 days and plenty going on it has been hard to get out for a solid 30/40 mile training run for the West Highland Way Race. I decided a back to back race weekend … Continue reading Triple Race Week
A Short Update... The start of the year was spent building my fitness up with a few races chucked in to add a bit of speed work. The current 'phase' of training aiming towards the West Highland Way ultra at the end of June is to increase the mileage and add in some long runs. … Continue reading Ultra Training & Calderdale Way Relay
Well, that went better than expected... Three Peaks Fell Race This was the 63rd running of the Three Peaks Race. The 23.5 miles/5,300 ft course starts in Horton-in-Ribblesdale and takes in the three highest peaks in the Yorkshire Dales: Pen-Y-Ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough. The race features on many a fell runners calendar for the year. Although classed … Continue reading Three Peaks Race – 29.04.17
First Experience of a Lakeland Fell Race It was another long week. 12 hour night shifts and a couple days in the shop. With a few days not sleeping well getting any decent training in proved difficult. With the Three Peaks coming up next weekend training has started to taper off. Although the Three Peaks … Continue reading Anniversary Waltz Fell Race – 22.04.17
Up & Running As I mentioned on my last post there was some exciting new job prospects coming along. My good friend James has recently become the manager at the local Up & Running store in Huddersfield and has offered me some part time shifts (fitting around my current job). After one shift on Friday … Continue reading Up & Running and National Road Relays
A post with a bit of running and a bit of cooking - Wakefield 10k and Vegan Chilli & Guac Wakefield 10k - 02/04/2017 After a good run out at the Northern Road Relays at Stanley Park in Blackpool last Saturday I was looking forward to this race. As Dewsbury 10k was slightly long … Continue reading Race and a Recipe
It has been a little while since I wrote an article on my blog so though it would be a good time to write my thoughts and get things rolling again. So my last entry was about food rather ran running and the last post about running was a round up for 2016 so plenty … Continue reading Building the Base and a bit of Racing
For a change I thought I would write about something different to the usual blog entries purely focused on running. I am also a bit of a health nut and find nutrition very important. In this entry I plan to go over a few of my favourite healthy eating principles and want to start regular … Continue reading Food is Fuel – A post not about running!
2016 Journey, Running Slower, Auld Lang Syne Fell Race and 2017 Targets 2016 has been interesting... As 2016 is rolling to a close I thought it would be good to take a look over the year and reflect on all that has happened (January seems a long time ago!) The year was filled with ups and … Continue reading Reflections on 2016
