Talking Life

Running the Lockdown 33 Ultra
This article with written for and published in Ultrarunning World. Impulsiveness: a tendency to act on a whim, displaying behaviour characterised by little or no

Training Update: 5 Weeks To Go
Why was last week so bad? I’m not the only one who thought so. Seems like a lot of people felt rubbish. Maybe it was

Zwift is for life, not just for winter (or global pandemics)
There’s a place upstairs in our house. It’s scary. When you enter, what greets you is an endless sea of ‘stuff’. Even a passing glance

A Sunrise dip for International Women’s Day
For International Women’s Day I decided to get involved in the sunrise swim at Portobello beach and help raise money for Women’s Aid. It sounded

The Barcelona half marathon – post race thoughts
It’s taken me a couple of days to process the Barcelona half marathon and come to a conclusion about my experience. The whole thing was a

Does slow and steady win the race?
Last week felt like the classic tale about The Tortoise and The Hare. This comparison is slightly tenuous, but roll with it for now, ok?…

The Paris 2020 marathon. And so it begins…
Staring at the checkout page having read all the information and signed the waivers for the Paris marathon. Finger hovering over the trackpad ready to

On doing the Simply Health Gateshead 10km wrong
This race was a last minute addition to my calendar because it happened to fall on a weekend I was in ‘The Toon’. The course

How running made me fall back in love with music
When I was younger I LOVED music. I’d get sent CD’s from PR agencies to review for websites (back before blogs were even a thing)

Kilomathon musings
A little over a year ago, my pal Kirsty mentioned over dinner that she wanted to run a 10km. Without thinking, as usual, I said
If cauliflower can be pizza, you can be anything you want
But seriously, this cauliflower base is flippin’ great. We should know, we’ve tried and tested enough of them.