Was it ever going to be possible to write a light hearted blog this week? I don’t think so. I know I wasn’t the only one glued to the TV this week, filled with horror. Boston marathon is a race I could never take part in, but have always revered...

The title of this week’s blog suggests serious research and heavy, analytical content. I would love to pretend that I could get all clever and intellectual at this point of my ‘bloggage’. A word? If it isn’t, then it should be...

Like much of the country, my little patch has been afflicted by terrible weather in the last week or so. Without getting all 'Michael Fish' about it and bamboozling you all with fancy meteorological terms (yeah, right!), suffice to say it has...

My word. What 20 stone weight lifting man has stolen my appetite and left theirs with me? (She types as she shovels in a mouthful of a generously filled ham & tomato sandwich, with tortilla chips) Now I’m on week 9 of (the hallowed) Hal’s...

Is it just me that has a feeling of dread each week until the long run is in the bag? As I usually do my 'biggies' (or 'stupid-ies', depending on my mood) at the beginning of the week, I find that when I have to delay it for any reason...

This was week 5 for me in Hal's Novice 2 programme. I have quivered over the decision to move on from Novice 1...a statement that surely only other runners would understand!! I really didn't want the miles to prove too much and have to 'step...

For anyone that pays particular attention to my ramblings, you may have noticed that I haven’t ‘blogged’ for a while. I have no excuses, no reasons, and NO idea why I have avoided doing something that I enjoy doing and feel better for...

I am a devoted listener of ‘tunes’ when I run. I know it is a statement guaranteed to raise the hackles of some otherwise chilled and relaxed runners, but hey, that’s the way I roll. Very occasionally I like to hear the world around...

My name’s Sarah and I’m a Weight Watcher. There. I said it. It’s less of a 12 step programme and more of a 2 step…eat less, do more. It sounds so simple when it’s put like that doesn’t it?! Well it is really, but that...

Well, the new mission has been accepted. I’m not entirely sure I chose to accept it, but accept it I did. Edinburgh. May 26 th 2013. 26.2 miles. Marathon number 3. Eek! Find a Charity Race Place for the Edinburgh Marathon . There is an element...

Ah POO... On my trainers that is, this is not just a random expletive. Poo. In every excruciatingly deep and now seemingly bottomless, cavernous channel on the sole of my Brooks. This is far from the first time that I have had to dig out animal...

Runher Stormont 2012 – Race Report So, after the rigours of ‘Silly September’ and all that my Reluctant Runner’s Bootcamp had put me through, the day of my 10k challenge had finally arrived. See Our 10k Training Plans. The...

So, we’re on week 3 of the ‘Reluctant Runners Boot Camp’. That meant that this week saw the 3 rd attempt on my part not to retch during my newly discovered Spinning class. It is not going well! As my relationship with running is...

I’m now in Week 2 of my self-inflicted, post summer holiday exercise routine and good grief I am tired! I know that if I can sustain this for even a month hopefully I will have reignited my ‘fit’ mode and things will start to feel easier...

Now, I get that I don’t like running. I do. And hopefully, even those of you that leap for joy when the alarm goes off to tell you its running time understand that?! It's hard, it can be lonely and boring, and for all the lovely, sunny Autumn...

I have a strange relationship with running, and I’m not entirely sure it’s a healthy one. I’m wondering is it just me? Is there anyone else out there with my slightly skewiff attitude? Serious ‘I love to run, I LIVE to run’...

Oh I’m a bad blogger! I swanned off on my hols, promising tales of Floridian marathons and then I just disappear! Without a note or a phone call or even a wave, I just GO! Flaming rude, if you ask me… I have a myriad of excuses, naturally...

Now. This week I have a dilemma and as going on Jeremy Kyle would drag up all KINDS of stuff that, quite frankly, would be better off left ignored, I am going to use this blog to discuss this dilemma. This does feel a little like a séance…...

I have wittered on rather a lot in recent times re the elusive ‘mojo’ and the infamous PMB ( Post Marathon Blues – pay attention!) . Well, to ring in the changes, 3 great things have happened in the last couple of weeks. How can I be...

The last couple of weeks I have to confess I reached the adolescence of my running ‘career’ to date. I lost my way, I threw my dolly out of the pram and I slammed a lot of doors!. I didn’t blog, I barely ran and when I did run, it was...

This week was a new experience for me in the world of running! Another one you cry?! This week, my fellow buggers (RUNNING BUGgers, obviously, oops, no offence meant!) This new experience? I was a marathon spectator! And wow. Just wow. What a day....

You may have guessed that miles have been few and far between this week. There has been 3 runs, all less than 2 miles as I try to give my heel time to heal (ha ha, sorry couldn’t resist). I have however admitted defeat and am off to the physio later...

Oh I wish I could run a marathon every week! I wish I had the ability, the strength, the time and the money to pop out every weekend and knock out another 26.2! For a whole week I could have conquered the world! (I couldn’t bend my legs to sit...

Ahhh, Brighton. At times I thought the day would never come. At times I was sure the day would come, but that I wouldn’t be in one piece when it did! But there I was, Friday 13th, appropriately, preparing for my flight to Gatwick (and celebrating...

Biting the bullet, taking the plunge, in at the deep end…none of these things sound good do they? But, like it or not, this is it, the last blog before the big day. Next week I will either be regaling you with tales of Brighton…or you will...