lost balance and trod on a bottle that some kind soul had unwittingly discarded in the middle of the road. My ankle turned over and one loud expletive later I was left nursing a very painful and rapidly swelling right ankle. Hoping to 'run it off' I
lads at Accrington Road Runners. Started doing speed sessions, gave up smoking and got my head down to the task in hand. In December I had a 2 pb's and felt excited when Runner's World came out with the training plans. Followed it to a T. Then came a
forumites for the first time. And what a great crowd of people! They really made the weekend. A special mention has to go to the spectator with a baby - I tripped over a speed bump, twisted my knee and staggered to the side of the road .. suddenly I just
. And indeed what was the key to your success? Plenty of long off road training runs over the hills in the Yorkshire Dales, and sitting on the heels of the 08:00 min mile pacers for the entire race. Huge thanks to the RW pacers.Q:How will you
hours 15 Kate - well done. We were off, Jane told me to take the bin bag off, and no way I wasn't out of the danger area yet. We took about 7-10 mins to get over the start. A mile down the road Jane asked how my leg was, I told her not to ask it had
Aquathlon and won my event, this was mainly due to other’s miss-fortunes [several competitors went off-course on the swim] rather than my physical prowess. However, the history books will still show me as #1. I have had some help from some of the others here
(people crossing the road) and those who had started to walk rather than run where doing so more than two persons abreast which made it difficult to pass them.Well organised - waited zero seconds for my bag at the end! Thanks to 'Rachael' from Macmillan
the winter clothes I had run in all through my training, and not have to panic about running the marathon in brand-new (and therefore likely to be highly chaffing) shorts and vest! Oh, and a gold star goes to the masseuse at the SPARKS hospitality event. She
preparation was better (even though I had a virus problem that took me off the road for 3 weeks about 6 weeks ago), I had no asthma problems (which troubled me badly last year), and the weather was so much better, etc. It beats me totally.... Yes, I did finish
pace and very hard to bear: I couldn't stretch my legs out. I started to feel very stiff and aching in my hips and knees because of this. (I have been fighting off injury during training). The rest of the road was free, so why were we sectioned to one
