Usually when you’re packing for a race, the usual dilemma is which pair of trainers to choose. It isn’t usually working out which trainers go together ...

Taken from Dreaming of Footpaths October 2013

8 very solid and not at all sarcastic reasons why you should not date a triathlete. (Oh and apologies for the noise halfway through the recording, the cat fell off the cabinet. Yes he’s fine. Yes he’s an absolute horror. And no he’s not allowed on the cabinet)

Autumn 100 miler (2015). It was 2am and I was having an argument about whether a section of path I was running was uphill or not. You’d think it would be a pretty easy question to answer but not having a spirit level to hand (argument number 2) and it being pitch black and my legs having run 70 miles already made this a lot more difficult to answer than you might think ...

My first proper cross country race in 2012 ... mostly underwater!

PART 2

PART 1

A tough day out on one of my first cycling sportives. Hail, wind and walking up hills ...

My first Breca SwimRun with Rachel! I’ve never been a team player. I like the IDEA of working as a team but at school I was the one standing at the end when everyone else has been picked along with the kid who smells funny and has one finger permanently up one nostril, and the kid who has has a communicable disease, hates sports and is threatening to lick anyone who picks him. I got distracted too easily. I’d get bored not playing at all times and would be standing there, wondering what was for lunch when the ball smacked me in the face. Or forgot which team I was supposed to be in so passed the ball to the opposite team.

Running my very first marathon. First published on Dreaming of Footpaths October 17th 2012

The triathlon was over before it had really begun. I was only three laps in, but I was panicking. The pool water –stinking of chlorine and enclosed spaces - was splashing into my face, I was gasping for air and I’d completely forgotten everything I’d learned in my swimming lessons. My head was telling me I was drowning in 4 feet of water.