After running 17 races last year as a complete beginner, I am now training for my first Half Marathon on the 13th May 2018. I loved a blog post by Kelly Roberts from ‘She Can and She Did’ where she said of herself that “I am just not a very gifted runner”. This really struck a… Continue reading Journey to My First Half Marathon, Weeks 11 – 12
After running 17 races last year as a complete beginner, I am now training for my first Half Marathon on the 13th May 2018. Once at a dinner party my husband made the bold statement that “The default setting of a human being is laziness”. There was an awkward silence at the table as people… Continue reading Journey to My First Half Marathon, Week 10
After running 17 races last year as a complete beginner, I am now training for my first Half Marathon on the 13th May 2018. This has been a solid week of training for me. Coach Nicola kept things interesting by adding a hills workout as well as a tempo run! I thoroughly enjoyed both, although the… Continue reading Journey to My First Half Marathon, Week 9
After running 17 races last year as a complete beginner, I am now training for my first Half Marathon on the 13th May 2018. Over the last two weeks, I have been quite consistent with sticking to Coach Nicola’s training plan and my confidence has grown with each kilometre. There was a definite transition from “Why… Continue reading Journey to My First Half Marathon, Weeks 7 – 8
The write-up of my 17th Race in 2017 is a little bit late – some of the details are a bit hazy but the emotions I felt as I crossed that final Finish Line are still so fresh. Quite by coincidence, my 17th race ended up being on the 17th December 2017! Here is the… Continue reading Christmas Dash 15k, #17/17
After running 17 races last year as a complete beginner, I am now training for my first Half Marathon on the 13th May 2018. After two weeks struggling with malaria, I returned to training with some walking and easy walk-run interval sessions. But just as I was starting to feel myself again, I caught a… Continue reading Journey to My First Half Marathon, Weeks 5 – 6
In 2017 I set an ambitious goal of running 17 races in the year. I was a complete beginner but by the time I got to the end of the year I didn’t feel like such a fraud any more! However, end-of-year deadlines, Christmas madness, New Year chaos, a stint with malaria and work travel… Continue reading The Ga-Maila Race 10k, #16/17
After running 17 races last year as a complete beginner, I am now training for my first Half Marathon on the 13th May 2018. Considering I am summing up two weeks, this will be a shorter blog post than usual, BUT with good reason. Yesterday I said to my coach, “Why aren’t things ever smooth sailing?” After two weeks… Continue reading Journey to My First Half Marathon, Weeks 3 – 4
After running 17 races last year as a complete beginner, I am now training for my first Half Marathon on the 13th May 2018. To keep myself accountable I will be linking up with the inspirational Holly from HoHo Runs and her fabulous co-host Wendy from Taking the Long Way Home every week to make sure I stay on… Continue reading Journey to My First Half Marathon, Week 2
On the 5th November, 2017 I ran the Soweto Race (10 km) in neighbouring South Africa – probably one of the most vibrant and exciting races I have participated in. This completed my “Road to Soweto Training Plan” and was the 14th Race in my “17 in 2017 Challenge”. It was a fantastic and well-organised race.… Continue reading The Soweto Race 10k, Race Recap, #14/17
The Gaborone Runner 