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Chicago Marathon 2015 Race Recap

Chicago Marathon 2015 Race Recap

Why is it so much harder to write a race recap about a run that didn’t go to plan? I think it’s easy to give excuses as to why it didn’t go right, however let me just say that it wasn’t my day. But lets start at the beginning. Our hotel was a 10 minute walk to the...
I finished the Chicago Marathon

I finished the Chicago Marathon

Thank you for all your lovely messages, tweets, instagram comments and emails. I so appreciate every single one. Just stopping by quickly to give you the good, the bad and the ugly about today’s race: The Good – I finished and saw my Mum and Tom multiple...
Chicago Marathon Training Week 16

Chicago Marathon Training Week 16

This week of taper has made me really excited to finish this marathon training cycle and start going to lots of fitness classes again. I took my final Barre class before Chicago, as well as a couple of incline walking workouts to get the heart rate up, without putting...
Chicago Marathon Training Week 14

Chicago Marathon Training Week 14

This week has been less than ideal, I’ve been plagued with migraines – probably not helped by a number of glasses of champagne at my friends wedding! Monday – BarreStretch class – my body loves this class and it does a world of good after the...
Running Goals

Running Goals

I’ve been really open by my A goal for Chicago, and have mentioned it most weeks in my training recaps- I am trying to qualify for Boston, and run a sub 3.35. That means running an 8.10 pace…for 26.2 miles. I do not want a repeat of Paris where I missed my A goal by...