The Difference a Day Makes

Hi Everyone! So its been a while since I have written an official blog but I have done a couple of race reports. If you haven't read them please check them out. If this is the first time you have read one of my posts, welcome and thank you for coming along on this journey with me.  Please go back and check out my previous posts if you have't already. If you have been with me before you will know that I stopped writing my blog a while ago and I would like to quickly explain why. I  hope you were all enjoying my posts but I believed that what I was writing about was becoming a bit repetitive and boring and that's the last thing I wanted this blog to be. So I took some time away from it to have a good thinking about how I was going to improve my posts and make them more interesting. In past posts I have spoken a lot about my training and what Jessie May does but I haven't really said a lot about myself, my family or the people I work with at Jessie May.  I thought it ...

Hi Everyone! I hope you all have been keeping well and I have seen a lot of you read my race report on the Frenchay 10K, if you haven't please check it out. This weeks race report is about how I got on at the Newport Marathon, which believe it or not is my first official marathon! The marathon took place on Sunday the 5th May 2019 and is claimed to be one of the flattest marathons in the UK. It is so flat that 70% of people who run it claim a personal best (PB) and the record for the course was also broken this year. The guy that won ran it in 2 hours 31 minutes and 34 seconds 😲! he ran it so fast if he lived in Bristol he would have finished the marathon, got back to his car and driven home before I managed to get over the finish line. This year there were 6000 people taking part in the marathon and the 10k that is the same day.  I was up at 6 am as I was being picked up at 7 to head over the Severn bridge and into Wales. I was feeling confident, I had followed a training p...