by Rose | Oct 12, 2022 | Members' posts, Race Report
After successfully gaining the NLFR club place in 2021, I was able to gain a good-for-age entry for this year’s TCS London marathon (a good-for-age for F50 is sub 4 hours, for M50 it is sub 3.15, 6,000 GFA places are allocated altogether, so running the time no longer...
by Rose | Apr 26, 2022 | Members' posts, Race Report
April 23rd, 2022 Having recced this one and raced it in the past I was quite confident of the route and hazards. Caroline, Niamh amd I were only there a couple of weeks before so I had got my bearings and knew it would be tough. The long track and road section at the...
by Rose | Apr 20, 2022 | Members' posts, News, Race Report
Boston Marathon (UK) :18th April, 2022 For the first time ever, I had paid for a training plan for this marathon from coach Josh Griffiths (who ran a 2.14.49 London Marathon in 2017). Anyway, I followed this plan to the letter following the dysphasia of my London...
by Rose | Mar 1, 2022 | Members' posts, News
For the past two weeks I have been on strike in support of the University and College Union industrial action over cuts to pensions, pay cuts, casualisation, equality pay gaps and unsafe workloads. This post isn’t about the strike but the role running has had in this...
by Rose | Dec 13, 2021 | Members' posts, Photo Gallery
21 miles, 3731 feet. Caroline left a comment on Strava: “rock up and do 20 miles, why don’t you?” She was right. It can’t be anything other than rocking up when I didn’t get an entry until the Tuesday before the race on Saturday. Inadequate training is now a theme...
by Rose | Nov 16, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
Sunday 24th October 2021. I ran this race for old time’s sake last month. The Abbey Dash was founded by Abbey Runners and more specifically Colin and Hetta Morath. Hetta has remained an inspiration to female runners and continued racing into her 70s. Colin very...
