Katie's Classics

 I will have 26 ribbons with me for the London Marathon - one for each mile. I would like you to wirte messages to me for them. To encourage me 1. go to my Virgin Money Giving pag e 2. Give me money  3. Tell me in the notes what short messgae you think I will need  Mile Name of fabulous person who donated Message 1  Becks You've left the milk out. Please rectify before running. 2  Alice  You are certifiable but hard-core! 3  Becks  Do we always run this far? 4  Coco  ROWYBS! 5  Dallas  Go smash it Stripey!! 6  Sara, Kuba and the Noodle You are amazing! We love you! 7  Meg You've got this 8  Linda Run Katie Run 9  Phil Crazy Woman! 10  Sarah R Something inappropriate  11  Dallison I'm still in bed you absolute nutter 12  Ray Have a nice day! 13  Amy MOOOOSE! 14  Kirsty Amazing effort mate! 15 ...

 One down - two to go.  The London Triathlon, number one of my three London endurance challenges is complete. Just over a week later and my legs are working normally again.  I ran 10km on Saturday - SLOWER than my tri 10km. SLOWER!! I knew that the tri was going to be the easiest of the 3 events. Yes I know how that sounds, but bear with me. I have done one before, on a much tougher course. And, the variety of doing three different events is good for me, it lets all of me get tired. Not just my feet (i'm looking at your marathon) or my shoulders (swim pain is real).  I had targets for the race.  1. Don't die. 2. 32 minute swim  3. Eat on the bike  4.  1.15 Run.  I am alive! I missed the swim time, but I am pretty happy with a 35minutes in water that resembled a washing machine and I got kicked in the head by an over competitive boy!  In my last tri I did not consume fluids or calories on the bike which fankly left me a bit of a mess by t...

 Well, it has been an interesting year hasn't it? But here we are in August 2021, I know I am a little bit last minute returning to the marathon party but please do forgive me. Fellow YST marathon runner Becks Ward and I had to take a bit of time out to get married! Just like everything else planned for 2020 it was a bit late, but we did it 😁 We honeymooned on Hardrian's Wall, taking a casual 10 days to walk from west to east, making sure we had plenty of time for pints and picture taking. And fortifying ourselves well with daily bacon. We counted this as training for the marathon under the 'time on feet' category. Although the bacon was perhaps less appropriate for the training programme.  Of course this is all working up to October 3rd and the London marathon, but it wouldn't be me if I didn't decide to make it a bit more challenging....  So in August (next weekend in fact) the YST vest will be making its first outing at the London Triathlon. At the start of ...