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,

Friday 6 May 2016

Troon Tortoise 10km Road Race

I entered this before I even thought about what state I would be in after doing "The Fling". In hindsight I should of not even bothered to get to the start line. I should of just went down with the Striders and had my fish n chips and went home. You live and learn.

So with me already in a state after "The Fling" There was no part of my legs that was not sore and achy. I rolled up to the start and decided that I would treat this as a recovery run and take my time around the course. It was raining but not cold. There was a fair amount of the Striders doing the race we were all staggered at various points around the start line. Me I was near the back. 

Did more and more stretching and then I heard a distant sound of a whistle and we were away. The first 400 yards turned into a bottleneck and you had to slow down or else you would run over the person in front of you. It was all going so well until 5km where both my calf muscles decided they had enough and went brick hard. This is the first time in a 10km race that I have had to physically stop pull over to the side and try and relax the muscles. It was bloody painful. Not sure how long I was there for or even how many passed me. I got myself back into the race and started off with a very very slow jog and then built it up to a slow jog where I pretty much kept to the end of the race. I was disappointed with my time. However that was my stupidity one that I hope I never make again. 

It is a great race, one that I do recommend others to try. It takes in a lot of Troon and it is virtually flat. Yes there is some inclines but lets be honest every race has them. 

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