It’s been a while since an article was posted here, but thought this something that needed to be talked about. I had already started the year with signing up for Manchester Marathon in 2026, and then Yorkshire Marathon, so out of nowhere decided to embark on trying my first Ultra, and do the Backyard.
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Race Date: 28/04/2019
Location: London
This is one of those races that is on everyone’s bucket list if you’re a runner. I was very lucky, that I had the opportunity to race this, and was able to get in via a charity place. I knew a charity, that was created by one of my cousins, and asked to enter the charity ballot for London, and fortunately enough they got in, and then they ask me to represent them. I am forever grateful, that they gave me this opportunity.
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Race Date: 07/04/2019
Location: Istanbul
This was my first race overseas, hoping to combine a holiday with a race. I was in the process of booking my holiday to Istanbul, and by
Race Date: 17/02/2019
Location: Loughborough
This was the 4th half marathon but wasn’t going to be the fastest again, as I was still coming back from injury. This was also the first race in the Steel City Striders Road Race League, and some of us got together and did a block booking. I reckon we managed to get 90 Striders on 2 coaches driving down to Loughborough for this race.
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Race Date: 03/02/2019
Location: London
This was the 5th anniversary of this 10k race, and my second time attending. I think the key difference from last year was it was even colder this year. This was also my first race after injury, so wasn’t really expecting anything spectacular in my performance.
Continue reading “London Winter Run 2019”It’s been almost a year since I officially joined the Steel City Striders (SCS) training run. If you have been keeping up with my blog over the year, you would have witnessed some of the ups and the downs of my running in the past year. In this post, I wanted to reflect on the things I have learnt this year, and if anything I would do differently. Finally will look at what my targets for the upcoming year
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Race Date: 15th December 2018
Location: Barnsley
This was to be my first Marathon in my journey of running, and I had only booked it as part of my long-term strategy and training for Spring Marathon. I was advised at one point to go through 2 marathon training plans as preparation so that I can be in the best shape for April. So looking at some Marathons available it was a coin toss between the Nottingham Marathon around the water sports centre (9 laps) or Elsecar Trail Marathon (4 laps). Just looking at the number of laps, I decided to go for Elsecar (It was also highly recommended by one of the Striders).
Race Date: 2nd December 2018
Location: Sheffield
This was my last 10K for this year, it’s also a race that tends to fill up within hours of opening for registration. Last year, this was my 3rd race and wanted to come back, as I had thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere and the support. Continue reading “Percy Pud 10K 2018”
Race Date: 4th November 2018
Location: Leeds
This was a 10K race, which I had booked well in advance, knowing too well that it had a PB potential. After doing the Leeds 10K, I found that the route would be very similar. With my PB of 46:08 there, I was hoping for a really good race after a few races that I had PB’d over the previous few months.
This was my third Half Marathon and was the main Half after the Sheffield HM, that I had intended to do well in. One kind Strider suggested that I should go through 2 Marathon plans to prepare for my spring Marathon. This, therefore, was in a middle of my first such plan. However, I had done extremely well and had gone various barriers of long distances to approx 22 miles. So after the Vale of York and Sheffield 10K, it was more of a consolidation and making sure that I was 100% ready for this particular race.