April Training

1-7th April Mon – 5 mile run as 10 mins tempo, 10 x 1 min hard / 1 min easy, 10 mins tempo. Plus a new yoga and meditation class with Yoga Bellies – their Lunar class (the one not for pregnancy or mum and baby!) which is low intensity, starting and finishing with a…

March Training

Another couple of weekends in the mountains doing Dragon’s Back recces then finally a couple of weekends of not driving hours and hours across the country. Felt like a bit of a rest after 6 long round trips in the last 5 weeks. W/C 25th Feb M – REST T – 8 mile lovely run…

February Training

W/C 28th Jan M – Club run including 6x500m flat efforts including extended run to and from the club for 10 miles total. T – REST W – 4.5 mild lunch offroad run + 6 mile club offroader T – Pilates + 11.8 mile run in Wendover woods including 2000ft of elevation. I had planned…

Dragon In Training

Time to get going with the Dragon’s Back training for the big one in May. January got off to a good start with 14.3 miles in the bag for new year’s day. I had thought about running from home to Tring, doing Tring parkrun, trotting over to Wendover for Wendover parkrun, and then running home….

November/December Off Season

November After New York Marathon, the plan was a bit of unstructured, fairly low mileage, but basically do what I fancy recovery. I had 3 days of complete rest then the rest of the week went sports massage + yoga, yoga, parkrun + yoga, body pump + yoga. My body was stuffed after New York…

May in South Africa – last push for Comrades; pushed to my limits at work; and thoughts on law & order.

Life The first week of May, I got in a midweek run with Sandra and Franco then sushi and drinks with them and Daniel. Franco had text me earlier in the day as he was still in work saying he was concerned he might be a bit late for running club. Running club! I was…

April in South Africa

Life First thing to say is this is the second time I’m typing this entire blog as I’ve broken another phone and had to buy a new one! Most stuff was backed up to Google drive but not the notes. My lovely organised lists! Anyway, after getting back from holiday on Saturday the 7th, I…

Easter Vacation in South Africa

Another blog with zero medicine or ‘real life’, more a travel blog about my Easter trip with Will. It’s me though, so of course there’s a good dose of running involved. Will flew into Johannesburg and transferred onto an internal flight down to East London. It was an eventful trip with a diversion due to…

South Africa Month 7ish

Most of Month 7 in SA until I left for 2 weeks Easter Holiday… Life The rota was finalised at the very last minute due to a continuation of the recent drama at the hospital. I’d entered a race on saturday with the hope I’d be off. The rota came out Wednesday ready for the…

South Africa Month 6

Life On the 31st of January, I flew to Capetown to meet my parents, taking 3 days annual leave so I could stay Wednesday to Sunday. We had an apartment close to the city and the waterfront. The first night, we walked to the waterfront, took a ride on the observation wheel, then ate an…

South African Christmas

If you read this blog usually to hear about rural medicine in South African, skip this post! If you read to hear about my training and racing, there are 5 parkruns, some hikes and a Christmas day beach run. If you want to read about travel and things to see and do in South Africa,…

SA Week 9 – Amanzimtoti

Work: After worrying about it over the weekend, Monday in work went fine. We decided on a roster with one person to cover each of antenatal, postnatal and clinic for the week so we’d each be responsible for one area. This meant for the first time ever, I didn’t start on postnatal and then go…