Paris… Good food, good wine, and a running in the shadows of the Eiffel Tower! This past weekend I headed to Paris to participate for the second time in the La Parisienne 6k women’s race. Living in London means it takes just one train ride and about 2 and a half hours to get to […]
On Friday I headed up to the Lake District with DH for what was supposed to be one of our final events of the 2010 season. Sadly, a text at about 7pm on Thursday put an end to that plan. “Great North Swim – cancelled – due to blue green algae” Brilliant. This was the […]
In part five of my series of sharing fitness tips, I bring to you another simple but vital stretch I do to keep my legs loose. I have been doing these since 2007 – but not as often or regularly as I should! I’ve been working with Michael Collins, London’s best sports therapist (in my […]
Well, when the London Triathlon was over, and I was collapsed on a bench in my back yard, barely conversant and enjoying seeing everyone at our traditional post triathlon bar-b-que, the last thing I wanted to think about was exercise. Or triathlon. Or training. I just felt totally spent. The week post-triathlon was a killer. […]
I am still in awe. Writing the next sentence humbles me, overwhelms me, and is like a dream. But I know it is not a dream. My hip flexors and quads remind me. I finished the London Triathlon Olympic distance yesterday. I completely redefined my limits. It was a humbling, emotional day. And I smiled […]
From Wednesday I have been hibernating. Ok, not really. But I paused triathlon training and have been resting. I have been trying to block out the fact that London Triathlon is on Sunday. I have done as much work as I could. I have been training since May 2009, and although I am only now […]
Wow. It is hard to write this post and to really capture exactly what I feel on the back of the weekend. I had one of those amazing weekends of training, where things just clicked and IT ALL FELT SO GOOD. A buzzing, glowing, golden feeling. Do you know the feeling? I put myself in […]
As you may know, this year I am focusing my fundraising in support of the CMT Association STAR initiative . CMT is a progressive degenerative neuromuscular disease. The CMT Association in the US is funding and supporting the search for a cure for (primarily) CMT1A, which impacts 1 in 5000 people, and along the way […]
In part four of my series of sharing fitness tips, I bring to you another simple but vital stretch I do to keep my legs loose. I have been doing these regularly especially since I have changed my orthotic inserts in my running shoes. The stretching is helping with my adaptation. I’ve been working with […]
I’ve always believed that if you love something, you should give back to it. I think this spirit of volunteerism came from my mother. I remember being really small – about 8 – and we did a food drive around Thanksgiving time. My mother loved the holiday and wanted to make sure that everyone could […]