When most brides are having their hair and nails done on their wedding day, I stood sweaty and grinning at the finish line, cheering as some of my friends and family finished their very first parkruns. Others had run beside me the whole 5K, letting me blow off steam about my nerves and excitement for…
Revisiting the Race for Life
My running journey began in earnest back in the mid-90s. Prior to that, I was a keen swimmer and cyclist who’d dabbled a bit in running but never taken it very seriously. That all changed with a Race for Life 5k, which changed my life as it has for many other people. A friend asked…
How To Train For Your First 5K
Training for your first Race for Life 5K or 10K is a seriously brilliant idea. Being a beginner runner is challenging no doubt, but you can see improvement day by day, and you carry such a sense of pride from it. That is, if you train properly and give the event a little bit of…