My enthusiasm for resurrecting my running activities is surging through my veins and consuming my every thought like some kind of sporty demonic possession.
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Category Archives: Carrie on running
Carrie on running: Run for it
I’ve been in full-scale running avoidance mode since the Great North Run in August. I had originally signed up to run the London Marathon and was using the GNR as a ‘training’ run but in the time since the half marathon I have run twice and have been gradually creeping toward admitting defeat and dropping [...]
Carrie on running: I did it!
Medal in hand, t-shirt on my back I’m now a bona fide half marathon runner. Man, this feels good.
Carrie on running: I’m alive!
It’s been about eight weeks since I was ‘diagnosed’ with shin splints and was told to stop running until my leg was better.
Carrie on running: Shin splints
Following my injury a few weeks back I made arrangements to see a physio. The visit was actually regarding an old injury to my shoulder, but I figured while I was there I’d be wise to ask him about my leg which by that point was no better.
Carrie on running: Trails and challenges
My last blog was about my injury wasn’t it? Oh yes, I remember now, sore leg and panic that I’d have to give up running for a while! Well I did – almost two weeks I was off and in that time I felt myself gradually sinking back into lethargic oblivion.
Carrie on running: Sportsister tests Crewroom kit
I remember being about 12 years old and going to a clothes shop on the high street with my mother and that being the moment I had to make the unwilling leap to adult clothes. I finally stopped growing when I was about 21 years old, when I’d hit 5ft 11 and a dress size 14.
Carrie on running: My first running injury
I slowly opened my morning crusted eyes and yawned as I fumbled about dozily for the sleep button on my phone alarm. As I stretched out in bed I accidentally kicked the cat, and as she miaowed feebly and rolled over I felt a dull ache in my muscles.
Carrie on running: Runners from different mothers – me and my womance
You know what a bromance is don’t you? Well if a bromance is what men have then I must be having a womance.
Carrie on running: 5km is so last week
Today (Tuesday) is my birthday. I’m 32 years old but on this very day I feel like I’m 72.
