Basel 24 Hours. Things I Learnt from Running a 24 Hour Race (Part 2)
Last year I ran my first 24 hour race, Crawley 24 hours. It was 24 hours of pure running joy and I loved every single minute of it. And the…
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Why I was never going to run Spartathlon/The Road to Spartathlon
There are many reasons why I was never going to run Spartathlon: It’s a long way (153 miles). There’s a bloody mountain at 100 miles. Yes that’s right, after running…
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Things I Have Learnt Being Injured
After my DNF at RR100, I assumed that after 10 days rest (a week of which was spent doing very little on a beach in Belize), I’d be able to pick…
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The Blog I Never Thought I’d Write. RR100. My First DNF.
This is the blog that I never thought I’d write. Not because I think I’m some amazing runner who is above DNFing. But because DNF just doesn’t feature in my…
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Rediscovering my Running Legs/Training for a Runnable 100 Miler – Countdown to Rocky Raccoon 100
Over the last couple of years I’ve come to realise what I love most in ultra running, and that’s running. After spending most of the last two summers training in…
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Why we need Gender Placing in Ultras
Like most runners I was completely fixated on The Spine race over the past week, witnessing one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen by a female endurance runner. In…
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Why I’ve been using the Poo Emoji a lot on Strava recently
2018 has been very kind to me running-wise, and the first 8 or so months of the year had pretty much gone as well as I could have hoped for.…
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Grand Raid Pyrenees Tour des Cirques 1 – Sarah 0
Pre-race After loving the CCC so much last year, I had this far-fetched goal that I wanted to try and turn myself into a Emilie/Beth/Katie-esque type mountain runner. I got…
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13 ‘The Hard Way’ – A good reminder that my legs still know how to run
Since I crossed the finish line in Bhutan at the start of June, I’d consciously made the decision not to enter any races between then and GRP. I actually prefer…
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How a Fairy who lives on the South Coast trained for a 123k/7,000m race in the Pyrenees
Last year I decided to dabble in mountain ultras when I ran the CCC. The result was I loved every minute of training and racing, and found the race itself…
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