Category Archives: Travel
Scattered Times
It’s been a relatively strange few weeks in the land of the boppers. My head feels like it might explode with everything I’ve had to do and try to fit in training too. Well, maybe the training didn’t fit in that perfectly. It got scattered between travelling and generally I’m starting to feel a little [...]
Comrades Marathon… 2011??
This past weekend the Comrades marathon took place in South Africa – this year it was a down run, which is allegedly the more gruelling between the up and down run and tend to work quite hard on your knees and legs (I’m not sure I’d be able to tell the difference after running 89km!!). [...]
You are an Ironman!
Before When I woke up, I had a bowl of oats, my stomach was feeling very nervous – had a banana and a mug of tea, followed by a mug of coffee and then headed to the beach with my mom in tow. We left the house at 4:45, which was a bit later than [...]
Ironman South Africa
Ironman South Africa takes place on Sunday, 25 April 2010. I’m athlete number 574 – or so the official start list says, and I don’t think it would change before the start. My head already feels like its going to explode with everything I need to remember, but at the moment I’m just scared about [...]
Snow Snow Snow
Its been snowing for what feels like forever – I left England on December 24th and when there was snow falling and arrived back on January 12th to be greeted by a few inches of snow in our back garden and general mayhem on roads due to the fact that no-one expected this much of [...]
11 days to go
Isn’t life just fun? I’m looking forward to the coming week because it means that I only have about another 10 days before I go to South Africa for a week of heat and sunshine and sand and family A quick visit to the family (my sister’s little boy is being christened) and a [...]
The LA Marathon Piccies
The LA marathon piccies arrived by mail this morning. And these are a few of them
Four days until LA
Four There are four days left. And we’ll be in LA I’m so excited, I cannot possibly tell you how much! Andy is just as excited, I’m just hoping my red nose will disappear before then. It won’t do to arrive there looking like I should be in bed! Hope everyone had a great weekend… [...]