October 15, 2018
I love sport, I always have. At primary school, I tried every sport and physical activity going, rounders, cricket, football, ballet, athletics, judo, taekwondo, barn dancing, brownies, tap dance…run outs, knock down ginger, climbing trees, running away from trouble. I loved to move my body. That was until I started believing that my body wasn’t…
January 15, 2018
People in the running world making assumptions about my running experience purely on my appearance is one of my biggest bugbears about the sport. It happens all the time. In fact it happens so often that I almost expect it to happen and then I find myself modifying my behaviour in case it does. Like…
September 20, 2010
Entering races is quite addictive I’ve found, but it sure as hell ain’t cheap, come to think about it, it ain’t even straight forward anymore. I have done maybe 20 odd organised events of some sort, and I have only ever fund raised for one… The London Triathlon. Reason being I wasn’t sure if I…