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An active weekend in Tenerife: The Tenerife marathon, half marathon and 8km races

Your comprehensive checklist: What to pack for an overseas marathon

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Fitness Musings: The Lack of Ethnic Diversity and Participation within Sports

The Travel Diaries: A Long Weekend In Hamburg

sunset in Hamburg, Germany

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@mara.fitlondoner

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Petition to bring back Orange Wednesdays 🧡 Slo

Petition to bring back Orange Wednesdays 🧡

Slowly weening myself back into training, with a light WOD today. While I’m sort of getting used to hybrid working (going into the office really knocked me out week 1 🥱) , I’m finding WFH plus switching to agency life (job wise) has meant I need to adapt my training to fit around life a totally different way.

Work life was a lot more structured in my previous in-house job so fitting in a training session was so much easier.

In my new day job, work life is so much more fluid and meetings/ projects pop up quicker than a MyProtein sale. A step up the career rung also means my hours are longer.

Thought: As a coach, It’s these sort of quirks i think we need to think about when our clients talk about struggling fitting in workouts with busy work days.

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Thanks everyone for your messages about Manchester

Thanks everyone for your messages about Manchester marathon.

It’s so hard coming off such a strong training cycle to then have it not fall into place on race day. But hey, we move. What doesn’t challenge you, doesn’t change you. I’ve spent the past week resting, recovering and reflecting.

Next training block I’ll be focussing on 5k and 10km times to really consolidate base training, along with lots of strength training.

We go again with chasing sub 3:30 👊🏿.

(Top and trainers from @brooksrunninguk gifted)

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*The One Where the Race Didn’t go to Plan* Of al

*The One Where the Race Didn’t go to Plan*
Of all the scenarios I had planned for, being wheeled off to the medic tent, struggling to answer questions (“where are you?”, “why were you here?” “What’s your surname?”), with ice packs around my neck, head lolling around, mouth wide open, severely confused, was NOT what I anticipated after crossing the @manchestermarathon finish line🙈. I just about paused my Garmin before paramedics helped *phew*.

I knew something was off around 28km when the wooziness and dizziness kicked in. My sweating felt different and my breathing was unusually rapid, even for that pace. A Marshall asked me if I wanted to pull put and I was like…NO! In the words of Daniel Bedingfield, I’m gonna get through this.

5k splits pace dropped mad from 7:35min/mile to 9:29 in the last 12k. It was rough, mentally and physically. Pushing through while muttering something like “push through, push through”, which began to feel therapeutic.

The marathon is a beast. Yesterday it chewed me up and spat me out. I know I’m capable of the goal A time I’d set myself but yesterday just wasn’t my day.

Despite that, Im really pleased with my pacing up to 28-29km. I felt pretty good up to that point. my nutrition strategy(gel wise at least) pre and during race was on point.

So while I didn’t get the time I had prepped for, I did get a 6 min PB of 3:40 plus a 10k and a half mara (hello 1:39!) PB. Time to ring the pb bell 🛎🙌🏽🎉

This is a lesson in resilience and perseverance. Clearly I’ve got some unfinished business, so I’ll be back👊🏿.

A huge thanks to the paramedics and docs for getting me back to on my feet. And to @humanraceevents for organising an incredible race, with brilliant crowds plus the marshall who went and got me a medal after I left the medic tent.

For now, I’ll be focussing on R&R 🤟🏿.

For those of you who raced, I hope y’all had a good time out there! Let me know how you did ⬇️⬇️

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Last track session done before @manchestermarathon

Last track session done before @manchestermarathon ✅. A niggle in my right ankle and left knee PLUS I can’t stop eating…means one thing: May the taper tantrums commence🤟🏿👊🏿

Now, tell me you’re tapering without telling me ⬇️⬇️⬇️

{jacket and Launch 8 shoes from @brooksrunninguk gifted}

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Final half marathon race done before @manchesterma

Final half marathon race done before @manchestermarathon . Target was to run it easy as part of the taper.

I didn’t take on any gels during this half marathon, took on water only once and ate only a small energy bar for pre-race breakfast: 🚩don’t do this! 🚩

Time : 1:42 and top ten women’s finish. A nice confidence boost especially as last week’s Hackney Half time knocked my confidence a bit. Not pushing for speed today; So pleased and surprised with time!

good luck to everyone running @londonmarathon tomorrow. Enjoy the carb load tonight and your final victory lap tomorrow 🙌🏽🙌🏽.

Whose racing or being a specathlete tomorrow?

(Head to toe in @brooksrunninguk - all gifted)

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Half marathon today. Netflix marathon tomorrow 🤟🏾

Loved the @hackneymoves half marathon. It was sooo good to be taking part in a mass event again.

I really was hoping for a 1:40 (100% can achieve it) but I lost time on a few things:
1. I forgot to open up gels pre-race, which made it difficult to open while running. I need to remember to do this next time as it’s in my control!
2. Had to walk aid stations as couldn’t drink water in cups while running. This is just going to take a lot of practice.

Despite that, pretty happy with my nutrition strategy, zero chafe, bangin’ music playlist and overcoming the mental demons, particularly between 8-10 miles.

End result: 1:44:04.

Who raced today and how are you feeling?

[Brands tagged + @hackneymoves place are gifted]

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Topic of debate: Mile repeats are one of the nasti

Topic of debate: Mile repeats are one of the nastiest training sessions to exist 🤮🤢

(Top gifted by @brooksrunninguk )

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Last week knocked my confidence a little towards m

Last week knocked my confidence a little towards my sub 3:30 @manchestermarathon goal.

After a previous brilliant week, I thought I was in a real momentum for these last few weeks until @manchestermarathon .

I was headhunted recently and started the new role last week. I had this whole idea in my head that training AND going into the office would be alll easy peasy stuff, like the pre-COVID days. And that by week 2, I had it in my head, I’d be back cycling and running to work like before - yup, that’s not 💯 not going to happen yet!! It turns out that 18 months of WFHhA really thrown me off!

I had to make the tough decision to reduce training because I felt so physically and mentally drained. While I know it was a good call to make, it has caused me some anxiety about how much that will affect my work towards sub 3:30 at Manchester as we edge towards the date.

Whose been going back to work and how have you been finding that mentally and physically?

(Top, shorts and Ricochets gifted by @brooksrunninguk )

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10 miles with another attempt at chasing sub 20min

10 miles with another attempt at chasing sub 20min 5km sandwiched in, emptying the tank🥵.

First 3km I was speeding along, placing 1st female and on track for breaking 20 mins, but gradually lost the energy over the last 2km, dropping to 6 or 7th (?) female and finishing with 21:26.

At this stage of training, I really wanted to have broken 20min, but alas, the work continues 👊🏾

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Honing in on the controllables: On today’s 30km

Honing in on the controllables:

On today’s 30km long run (much more successful than last Sunday’s!), I spent a lot of time thinking about the little things that have been annoying me on my long runs and how to stop them happening at @manchestermarathon. So here’s my issues and proposed solutions I’m going to try on the next long runs:

1️⃣ ISSUE: opening gels while running: Mind can’t compute it!

SOLUTION: open the wrappers pre run and tape them. I’ve done this at triathlons and when eating on bike so it should work 🤞

2️⃣ ISSUE: forgetting to take gels at prescribed distances🙀

SOLUTION: when you’re running hard, maths is really hard. My brains tells me 20km-22km is a 5km distance 🤦🏾‍♀️. Going to write on my hand the distances when I need to have a gel.

4️⃣ISSUE: eyes stinging from sweat🥵

SOLUTION: wear a buff round wrist

5️⃣ ISSUE: Upper body getting too hot or too cold 🥶🥵

SOLUTION: I’ve nailed my bra, shorts, sock and shoe combo for the race so just need to test a few more tops.

Hopefully if these are issues you’re also encountering in your training, these solutions might be handy!

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