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Race Report (Kelly feels ever so official now) So where to begin, my first Race Report; I guess I’ll start at the very beginning, I am assured it’s a very good place to start. (sung) Way back when in 2015, I was coerced by a very enthusiastic flyer, namely Kay, (and assured by Anne it was an excellent one for […]
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6am on a Sunday morning does not exist to many. It does however in the Young household on a frequent basis due to an aging incontinent dog and a daughter who wakes early, so an early start was no hardship. The train journey was straightforward on the C2C to Limehouse and DLR to the Cutty Sark. You can however tell […]
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Well…. After Stort and its rather pleasant 30 miles along an ‘out and back’ course it seemed like a good idea to do the shorter marathon distance on New Year ’s Eve. I bought into the Flitch marathon as it too is an out and back course and, even better, it was along an old railway line so it was […]
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This is the third year I have done this Half Marathon – and it wont be the last. Sean first introduced this race to me three years ago, and as the name suggests it’s by the A20 in Kent. I will begin with the hill. It has the biggest hill I have ever come across in a race. Benfleet 15, […]
Read moreLeeds is just one of the many cities in the UK I have connections with, and when earlier in the year my sister bought a new home, I had a great excuse to visit. My sister (Alex) has been settled in Leeds for many years, and our busy lives mean we get to see each other just a handful of […]
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So I’m sure you all know the race weekend drill by now, or at least the people that have read my reports before will. I get told where to meet Jo, what I need to get for her, calm her race week nerves, me getting excited about race weekend blah blah blah….Well NOT this time. I get a text Thursday […]
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Well who would have thought 3 years ago when I did my first parkrun that I would be writing about a 30 mile race. So here we go… Stort 30 – one of the easiest things I have ever signed up for. So easy – all you have to do is type in a few details, press ‘Enter’ and pay. […]
Read moreLast year as a rookie canicrosser I took part in the Thurrock 10k- smashing 3 minutes off my PB despite monsoon weather conditions. So Purfleet (never thought I would say this!) holds happy memories for me, and it was a date in the calendar I was eager to book in for 2015. I did, and then along came Stort30. Having […]
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So how did we get here? Well back in October 2014 Scotty Brenton and I had just completed the Amsterdam Marathon and had such a jolly time that we were considering our next challenge. Together with fellow Flyer Peter Cole we decided to put our names into the ballot for the next Berlin Marathon – it came highly recommended by […]
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The Ipswich half marathon was suggested to me only 10 days before the event and I have done little distance training since I dropped out of the Brighton Marathon training due to injury. I completed the Southend Half with no training mainly due to the fact that I was surrounded by orange, the spectators were amazing and we were running […]
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