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NYC Marathon Tracking
Posted on November 1, 2017 Leave a Comment
It’s almost race day and I couldn’t be more excited about it. Today I finally managed to check into my flight and selected my seat as well. I’m flying with Virgin Atlantic ( flight nr. VS 3 ) , leaving Heathrow at 8.50am and should land in JFK at 1pm. Before I selected my seats […]
NYC Marathon – pacing strategy
Posted on October 26, 2017 Leave a Comment
A week from today I’ll be already in New York , hotel checked into and if everything goes well collected my race pack. New York will be my second marathon and I’m getting incredibly nervous. I think it’s totally normal but still worrying about the smallest things. It’s my first overseas marathon, how will I […]
Great South Run 2017 – Portsmouth
Posted on October 24, 2017 1 Comment
Last October I was at home and flicking through the tv channels I came across a running race called ” Great South Run “. I never heard of that before, and it was in Portsmouth. Which is about 50 mins drive from Basingstoke. Seeing all the amazing runners I’ve decided that it’s time for me […]
Why so negative?!
Posted on October 15, 2017 Leave a Comment
I was thinking about this in the last few days to write this post or not. but at the end this is my blog and I can write about negative stuff as well. So I’m part of loads of Facebook groups, about running and recently joined a few triathlon and specially Ironman ones as well. […]
New York Marathon – Confirmation Form
Posted on October 13, 2017 Leave a Comment
Few days ago I was checking my NYRR profile and noticed that they have added a new tab onto my home screen. It said ” Download my confirmation form ” or ” Email my confirmation form ” . I got super excited about this, because it means that from now on I’ll know my start time […]
Social Run Group by Up & Running Basingstoke
Posted on October 2, 2017 Leave a Comment
A few weeks ago I’ve seen a post on facebook that the local sport shop – Up & Running Basingstoke – starting a ” Social Run Group”. They plan to run the sessions on Wednesdays and the distance is an easy 5km. According to their leaflet ” all abilities ” are welcome and no one […]
Be Iron Fit by Don & Melanie Fink
Posted on September 16, 2017 1 Comment
I was planning to buy this book ( click here for Amazon ) for a few weeks now, but had to wait till payday to get it. Ordered it on last week Saturday and to my surprise Amazon offered a Sunday delivery to a near by Amazon locker. When I got the text message from […]
Swimming here I come
Posted on September 16, 2017 Leave a Comment
A week ago Friday I finally managed to sign up to do swimming in my local swimming pool. The gym offers loads of different gym packages, including ” just swim ” for £26/ month. I don’t think that’s a bad price at all. Before i signed up I have checked […]