Home town girl

I bought a vegan ice-cream, bantering with the young girl running the kiosk about whether she’d tried them herself. I noticed a same-sex couple kissing on the beach. The old Victorian pier, half burnt-down some time ago, now boasts a couple of hipster coffee shacks and a crepe stall where the slot machines and fortune... Continue Reading →

May 25, 2024 3

Run done

tldr: I did it! ‘It’ being my first running event. I’m not going to call it a ‘race’ because time was never important to me (apart from fervently wanting not to finish last!). I’m just proud to have taken part and to have finished. I have wanted to run an event (race) for what feels... Continue Reading →

May 14, 2024 4

The training plan

After signing up for my first ever 10km event (or any event at all, actually!) I drew up a training plan to take me neatly up to the distance over several months. I don’t know anything about running training plans, but this seemed pretty reasonable to me, an incremental increase of distance from a pretty... Continue Reading →