The reasoning behind the madness!

The reasoning behind the madness!

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UPDATE! 25 Oct 2010

It is with great sadness that I write this update. On the 25th October 2010 my little sister sadly passed away at the age of 31. She had bravely battled MND for 11 years. She had never given up and had achieved to much even after developing MND, winning the Open University award for achievement to gaining a degree. She will be greatly missed and will for ever be in our thoughts. Love you sis :D

Well where to start, it was all originally done as I was carry to much weight and wanted to loose it. Which I am sure it most peoples story begins, however after loosing the weight I actually started to enjoy running outside. Joined some forums (BCTTT & Runners World), there inspiration and helpfullness has helped me a lot. Now I am also swimming and commuting a couple of times a week to work on my bike! Now since 2011 I accomplished more than I thought I ever would or could. From 5k runs to an Ironman in 2014 and The Outlaw in 2015. In 2016 I am going down a different route, I will be trying Ultra's as you can see from my events I have already entered 3 so far. Now I thought wait a minute I need to have one more motivation and that people is my sister Emma. Since the age of 20 she was very unfortunate and developed MND (Motor Neurone Disease), she is now 31 years of Age. Her health has deteriatated over the years and we nearly lost her last year. My mum had to give up her work and become a full time carer for my sister and my dad takes over the duties when he comes home from work. All the races I do will be in aid of my sister and all money raised will be donated to MND to help raise awareness and research in the disease. Thanks for all your help and enjoy my training blog,

Thursday 27 February 2014

Endurance ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun

After what can be described as a horrid week of training. Yes I was still feeling like I was constantly hungry and I gave in and ate loads of hummus and pitta bread had a flapjack and fizzy juice. All just over an hr before going on my 1hr30 run. This was going to end badly, I can say though that I was not hungry anymore :D

Got home got changed, did my warm up stretches and then proceeded on my run. The first 5 mins of the run was to be a gentle jog to wake the system up. Then the rest of it was to stay at my marathon pace (having never run at that pace for more than 50mins). I have never ran non-stop for more than an hour for some time now.

Felt a bit sick during the first 20mins all I could taste was pitta bread. Then I got into my stride and ran what felt like most of East Kilbride. Took a gel 45 mins into the run (I may aswell start with race nutrition).

The rest of the run was uneventful I did run with a few guys for about a mile before overtaking them and continuing on my run. Then got home and decided to see how bad/good I did.

Did 10.69 miles @ and average of 8:25min miles get in there. Will take that any day of the week. Chuffed to say the least. On a bonus note no MP3 was taken on the run :D
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