… Another running story I’m afraid! Well I did it. I ran the Canberra Marathon last weekend and came home with a nice tidy personal best time. I am absolutely thrilled. What a wonderful feeling it is when you put in the hard yards and are rewarded for it. I can …
I have reignited my affair with running lately. I never fell out of love with it but just like human relationships, the one with running also sees ups and downs and there are times where it’s just a massive, massive effort. In January a really gorgeous running friend of …
Yesterday I had my bastard gallbladder out, the pesky little body organ that has given me so much grief for the past 6 months. When I saw the surgeon this morning as I was being discharged from hospital, he said, “Your gallbladder was septic and full of large stones. You …
Well look at that, 3 blog posts in 3 months. One about sushi and two about marathons. Never going to win any awards now am I? I have been the lamest blogger ever. Last weekend I ran the Australian Outback Marathon. A 42km run in the desert around the most …
Last sunday I ran my second London Marathon (VLM) and finished with an enormous smile and an enormous sigh of relief. Although it didn’t quite go smoothly, it was the most amazing day and I loved it. Because I had run the marathon last year I knew what to expect, …
So here I am, back in olde ye London town. I don’t need to tell you all how good it is to be back in my very favourite place on earth. Everything is right in my world again except that my kids are 17,000km’s away, but they are in …
It’s hard to believe a whole year has gone by but here I am back in the swing of training for my second London marathon. I have to admit I’m not as excited about the training part as I was last year. The memory of long hot runs at 4am …
Yesterday I was sorting through some old photos and I came across one taken of my then family of five when my middle son was only a few weeks old. I was in a bad way with post natal depression and after he was born was the first time I …
I have been the lamest blogger on the planet. Because I’ve been a bit of a misery guts and preoccupied with being injured and not running, I’ve completely neglected my blog. I don’t think in my blog’s life I’ve ever gone this long without posting something. I’ve had nearly 8 …
Its been five weeks since I injured my leg. Last week I was finally able to get a few short runs in without too much pain, although the leg certainly wasn’t 100%. Then on saturday something went wrong with my other leg. Without boring you all with the details I …
I’ve injured my leg pretty badly. I did it a couple of weeks ago but didn’t want to write about it because that would be like admitting to myself that my Sydney Marathon hopes are in jeopardy. But after my third physio visit today it’s now official – my Sydney …
It’s been seven weeks since the London Marathon. I’m already into week two of training for the Sydney Marathon in september and I’m not really sure how I feel about doing it all again. The weeks between training plans have been lovingly filled with nice gentle easy runs instead of …
2011 was one of the worst years of my life. I’ve had two years in my life that stand out for me as the absolute worst. One of them marred by tragedy, one of them due to my own self loathing. I had my fourth child in 2011 and fell …
Yesterday I ran the Sydney Morning Herald half marathon. I am very pleased to report that I wasn’t beaten by anybody dressed as a mustard bottle, nobody dressed in a dog costume, Darth Vadar or anyone wearing a mankini. The only costume worth noting was someone wearing Speedo’s and a …
I wouldn’t go as far as saying I’m obsessed with running, but I do love it, it’s my first priority if I have any spare time and it occupies my thoughts a lot. Does that make me obsessed? Oh alright I admit it I am. Completely. But not as obsessed …