This week has been hard. Coming back from a swift trip to Korea tired me out. I’m running three days a week now, each intense and with purpose. That is tiring me out. And the change of seasons? I suspect that too is tiring me out. It is really easy, when you are tired, to […]
When was the last time you ran a mile? For me it was Thursday morning. I woke up and went to the gym to run before getting on a flight. Kit on, ankle braces strapped up, I got on the lift and headed to my hotel gym. Only two years ago I ran my first […]
I’m just back from (another) long haul business trip and super excited to see that my contribution to the Cook Train Eat Race series “The Athlete’s Plate by The Athlete” is now up! Head on over to the site to see Jason’s take on a day in the life of my eating. That day is […]
Last weekend I went to Paris. (I still think it’s so cool to say that – I’ve been an American-in-London for the past 14 years and have a British passport, but even so I still think there is something special about being able to get on a train and go to a different country!) Last […]
It is really easy when something is wrong with you to enter into a spiral of blame and despair. You can start to blame everything on your illness. *Maybe I have tinitus because people with my disease can have hearing problems.* *All those years I stood in front of speaker stacks dancing in clubs, and […]
September is Charcot Marie Tooth Awareness Month. In my La Parisienne race report, I noted that for the first time I wore my Team CMT jersey on the run, for all of those who manage life with a progressive degenerative nerve disease. CMT affects 1 in 2500 people, including me. In honour of CMT Awareness […]
On Sunday I did my third La Parisienne 6k race in Paris. It was a great event, on a course that I really enjoy, and for the first time I felt like I was actually able to run (the parts that I ran) the race. I shave 4 minutes and 39 seconds off my time, […]
Getting back into things after holidays is always tough. I find myself clinging onto the relaxed feeling I found after two weeks of down time. I was so lucky to spend the end of my summer outside, active, and with a permanent glow of happiness. Laughter comes a bit easier now, and work stress seems […]
I know. I said that the FireMan AquaRun was it, my last multi-sport event for 2011. But sometimes life has a way of offering up second chances – or should I say that PEOPLE make second chances happen. On Thursday my friend Chris gave us all a second chance to race a race that should […]
When we made our summer holiday booking this year, we thought of three things. Sun, Fun. Triathlon. Our summer vacation for 2011 would be in a beautiful placeand span the week before and after a triathlon, enabling us to do the sport we have grown to love in yet another new location. The ultimate active […]