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,

Monday 29 February 2016

parkrun PB

I met up with a few of the Striders to go a run before Strathclyde parkrun. We ran just over 8 miles, have to say the weather conditions was amazing sun was out, hardly a breeze, it was cold but nothing to stop a good run. I had to stop and let the rest of the Striders run on as my left calf started to feel tight and I wanted to run the parkrun.

By the time the parkrun was about to start I could still feel a slight tightness in my calf but thought I would start out and see how I faired. Well that went out the window as I did the first mile in 7:26, still felt good and did not realise that I had actually increased my speed and knocked out a 7:09 2nd mile. Still going strong looked at my watch and if I kept this up I was onto a PB saw a guy in front and decided to try and shadow him to the finish as soon as I caught up with him he took it up a gear and sprinted away...............no I was not even going to attempt that I was at my threshold. Just as I was about to cross the finish line a young boy barged past me nearly lost my footing. Crossed the line and then pressed STOP on my watch and yup got myself a new PB

Time:- 22:07



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