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Mood 😆 Little throwback to the early miles* at @endure24uk over the weekend because 1. I'm off to poet about at Grizzly hosted by the fab @uobwritersbloc tonight, and 2. Tomorrow I get to bring all those creative vibes to my first workshop for this new job 🎊🎊🎊 . . *this happy face stuck around for 50+ miles**. Endure, you put on one heck of a weekend! **It did eventually morph into the face of d.o.n.e. though 😅

Before... And after. It was a race I hadn't trained enough for. It hurt. But thanks to the incredible other runners out on the course, it was never lonely. 13 laps. 65 miles. Given the condition I was in going into this, I'll take it. #crewlove #borninthemud #racedaystories

Happy Global Running Day! 😆 Granted, this is not where I ran today, but it does sum up one of the things I love about it - the amazing people I've met along the way. From this gal who is the best training partner and crew you could ever hope for, to the friends I've made through @advent.running, to the small but mighty Brum crew who put up with my madcap ideas about where would be fun to go on a weekend. To Chris, who I wouldn't have met if it weren't for those early days 5k jaunts and who has been with me on so many adventures since (there's a reason I proposed on a trail run 😂) Last year I wrote about the incredible mental strength and comfort it brought me. Well, this is the other side of it. It takes a village to make a runner, and my village don't let their people falter. Here's to all my fellow loons. See you on the trails! 🏃‍♀️🏞️🍃 #internationalrunningday #crewlove #borninthemud

One year ago today. Having (slowly!) followed the footsteps of @ultra_damo (who I'm still blaming for making it seem like a good idea), my journey along Britain's favourite footpath ended here. It was a bit of an anticlimactic end to an adventure - it had poured with rain all afternoon, my clothes, tent and gear were all soaked through and the place was empty - but I wouldn't have changed it. 630 miles run. 98,400 feet (29,990metres) climbed. 31 days of pure adventure. Would I do it all again? Hell yes. #swcp2018

#tbt to coming down the side of a waterfall in the Dales because things are definitely starting to look up for the summer 🤗☀🍃 📸 : @trail_26

Moment of bluntness - I've hardly run in about a month. Barring the Monday Social and Friday #runforcoffee, I've done one vaguely longish run (hi Howgills ☠) and that's it. It's not exactly been a choice - I've just been permanently exhausted, feeling like I'm running on a dead battery all. the. damn. time. Two runs have left me literally crying with frustration because there's no good reason for it to be this hard right now - and one of those was a 3mile bimble round the park 🤦‍♀️ It's been like jumping into the body of someone who's never run in their life (side note - beginner runners, y'all are HEROES, you hear me? H.E.R.O.E.S. ✨) And as much as I would love to be Captain Positivity right now, let's be honest here. It sucks. So with a solo stint at @endure24uk looming - not to mention the fun adventures with the crew I'd quite like to go and enjoy thanks - the next steps are more rest 😒, move in a way that doesn't leave me flattened or feeling shite... and, I guess, trying to work out wtf is going on so we can fix it. So here's my unimpressed face on today's 9 miler, in which there were at least maybe 3 miles where I didn't feel like garbage, teeny tiny mini-ducks 🐥, a cracking playlist, kit testing, and some pretty canals because, yknow #silverlinings /rant end. Normal service to resume dreckly. #athletesunfiltered #sometimesrunningisshitty #newlegsplease

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Mood 😆 Little throwback to the early miles* at @endure24uk over the weekend because 1. I'm off to poet about at Grizzly hosted by the fab @uobwritersbloc tonight, and 2. Tomorrow I get to bring all those creative vibes to my first workshop for this new job 🎊🎊🎊 . . *this happy face stuck around for 50+ miles**. Endure, you put on one heck of a weekend! **It did eventually morph into the face of d.o.n.e. though 😅

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Tales from the Trail – Homecoming

Adventures, Hiking, Running, SWCP, Trail Running

Tales from the Trail – Homecoming

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A Memory of Witches: Hiking the Harz

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