I need your help guys. Over the last few months a number of people have said to me after hearing about my blog, “oh you should read that book, you know “Run Fat Bitch Run”, and I figured that perhaps I should as it seems we have a shared interest. So I picked it up […]
Can I call you a Fat Bitch? Read More »
Today I came across a great post outlining the many reasons why we run…and I thought ok how many of these apply and actually there wasn’t a single reason that didn’t apply to me…however there was a pretty big one that was missing for me, which was I run to prove to others that I
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So for argument’s sake lets just say you’re overweight, well 60.8% of the UK population are so you are in good company…or heaven forbid you are obese or dare I say it morbidly obese (all of which I have been over the last 20 years)… and you are considering taking up running you say? Who in
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So for the last 3 weeks I’ve been saying “right tomorrow I’m gonna get up and do Parkrun” and every Saturday morning I’ve rolled back over in bed and not gone. But something has to shift Rose is 8 weeks old and not only can I not fit into any of my pre pregnancy clothes,
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Now I am not for a minute saying that running 26.2 miles is easy, its not. But I can assure you that 99% of the people who say to me “Oh my gosh I could never run a marathon” well they could. Its all about attitude If you can stand on your feet all day,
What do you mean you could never do the Marathon? Read More »
I am really going to run the London Marathon. I have seriously been sitting here in my flat all day thinking about what to write in today’s blog. I mean it feels like my life’s been leading up to this point for such a long time, it’s all I’ve been thinking about…what my life has
It’s really gonna happen Read More »
So today I was launching an Olympic Gardening project to mark 100 days to go until the start of London 2012 and I just so happened to mention I was doing the London Marathon to a group of local politicians from the authority I work for, 2 of them were very impressed and wished me
Still not a proper runner Read More »
I remember the first time I ever pulled a fast one to get out of running. It was back in the 90s, my year 9 school sports day. I was running a 3000 meter race (I think), at Terrance Macmillan Stadium, I’d done no training (what’s new), it was hurting, I was struggling at the
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So I got up early this morning and cycled to BMF. Now the thing I like most about BMF is the diversity of it’s participants, there are all kind of people there, of all backgrounds and many different sizes and levels of fitness. Today however I was the only overweight person in my team, and
