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,

Sunday 14 August 2016

John Lucas Ultra (Team)

Decided for something a bit different that a few of us would enter the John Lucas 50 mile run as a team.

So there was Maria, James, Laura, Donald and myself. Yup I was the team captain. However though I let everyone choose what stage they wanted to do and what ever was left that was to be mine. I was to bring the torch home so to speak. I got the last leg which was just under 10 miles but was going to be hilly. Actually most of the course is hilly.

Laura was to start of us, followed by Donald, Maria, James and then Me. I picked everyone up except for James as he made his own way to his location. The banter on the day was brilliant, nearly got lost a few times as I did not know where each checkpoint was lol.

I cannot really write for the rest of the team as I only heard what they thought, which was all good. They enjoyed the experience just as much as I did.

We were not really thinking about positions, as we did not know about this. However I went about my pace as fast as I could to try and catch the 2 people in front one being over 10 minutes ahead. I took the hills easy and effort on the flat and downhill sections. By about 6 miles I had overtaken one of the teams and tried to catch Kirsty. I was starting to loose my pace as the course took in a section I did not know about. Really should take more attention to what the course is like. No matter I pushed and pushed myself till the finish line to be told I was under 3 minutes behind Kirsty. I was well chuffed in making up 7 minutes. To then be told by my team mates that we finished 2nd in the mixed teams. That was close. But lets be honest, there is no way I was going to get any faster to catch up.

My Leg 1:14:53 (9.8 miles)

As a team we are more than happy with the outcome as it was to be more of a fun event and to finish 2nd was AMAZING. This could be on the cards for next year if we keep the same team

Really need to get some pics.
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