Sorry for the lack of updates … but here’s my running round-up from July 2012 onwards:

• Running was good
• Then life was suddenly really, really sad =(
• Then running stopped
• Then running started again, but running was hard
• Then I hated running and wanted to stab running in the tits
• Then Amsterdam Half Marathon happened and it was good
• Then Paris Half Marathon was signed up for
• Then thoughts such as, ‘Ah this running lark is not so bad’ crossed my mind
• Then Paris Half Marathon was just awesome
• Then I liked running again

That basically brings us up to the present day. HIYA! 

Run Dem Crew Greyhounds at the Arsenal Emirates Stadium last night  - big ups @RasheedDauda for the pic and the amazing Paul @pb1million for leading the group. I’m the one with the lasers coming out of my back.

Emirates is defintely one of the toughest routes for me – long, dark, lonely stretches and inclines in all the wrong places – and I’m pretty sure I whinged all the way through but it was all worth it because I feel absolutely awesome today =)

I loved going track when I was at secondary school. I used to train at New River amongst the likes of Dwain Chambers, John Regis and Dalton Grant three times a week without fail, even though I wasn’t even doing that many competitions or anything.

Things I associate with those old school sessions:

• Being fast
• Fit boys
• Happiness

Bearing all this in mind, I rocked up to Mile End track with RDC crew yesterday to re-live those glory days.

Things I associate with last night’s session:

• Finding it so hard I wanted to DIE
• Losing a lung
• Depression

Aside from that, it was amazing. It’s gotta be done - this sub 2 hour Amsterdam half-marathon ain’t gonna run itself! The bastard.

Big ups Paul Bains RDC for leading the session =)

rundemcrew2:

Come celebrate 4 years of Run Dem Crew at 1948 London.

runningtings:

Family

“A couple of hundred yards from the Olympic Stadium, the deprivation of Newham should undermine any sense of national ‘togetherness’ the establishment would like to foist upon us … Much has been made about the “regeneration” the Olympics will bring to a place like Newham, yet as part of the Coalition’s cuts, the borough’s local authority will see its funding from central government slashed by around £75million over the next four years.” Independent, 9 May 2012

Community Links is an amazing charity which runs a range of community projects to support thousands of local children, young people adults and families each year. Newham, Community Links’ home borough, has high levels of deprivation, poverty and unemployment, and the youngest population in the UK with over 40% of residents under 25.  

But the charity has lost £3.5m worth of funding in the last year,

too tired to even do proper gunfingers at the bupa 10k finish

just looking through my running calendar and WHY WHY WHY AM I DOING TWO 10KS IN ONE WEEKEND, WHY

I’m not good in the heat.

I’m moody, I’m not nice to be around and, basically, I’m a total bitch. And in the heat, I’M EVEN WORSE!

See what I did there.

So, bearing all this in my mind, why would I go and FAST MYSELF UP and run a 10k on the hottest day of the year?

I cannot tell you. I cannot tell you.

What I can tell you is that I was so motherfugging hot that

now reading

rundemcrew2:

(via runningtings)

shutupandrun:

@bridgerunners go hard. #ragnarcape @mrbluebish (Taken with instagram)

so i’m doing the bupa london 10k again in may. don’t even remember entering tbh, but it was amazing last year so let’s goooooooooo