I’m not one to be over dramatic (actually, I totally am), but taking up running in 2014 completely changed my life. My boyfriend, my dog, my house, my job. The fact that I spend 99.9% of my time doing something triathlon related. It all comes back to running. Which kind of freaked me out when Read more

Okay so we’re almost halfway through 2018 and I’m only just getting round to penning my first blog post of the year. The last five months have passed in a whirlwind of train, work, eat, sleep, repeat – and I’m loving it. 2017 was the year of ‘actually, yes I can’ as I surpassed my Read more

As an endurance sport, triathlon can be incredibly tough on both the body and the mind. With three disciplines to master and – when it comes to age-groupers – up to 17 hours of constant movement to contend with in Iron distance races, race day success relies upon a body that’s not only fit but Read more

We have our falling outs, my brain and I. In 2014, during my final year of University, I got diagnosed with general anxiety disorder. Having a name for how I was feeling was kind of a relief in itself, and on reflection it made me realise that anxiety was something that had been with me Read more

“Wait, what? All in one day? And you do that for fun?” Throughout my Ironman 70.3 training, and even more so now I’ve decided to step up to the full Iron distance, a question I’ve been asked a lot is: “but… why?” Granted, I can see that from the outside this triathlon malarkey probably seems Read more

If you want to get quicker at running, you’ve just got to out and run faster more often – right? Not exactly. It can be hard to get your head around the idea of deliberately running easy. It’s something I definitely struggled with initially – how could running slowly make me quicker? But when I Read more