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 ...

I had been struggling for motivation a bit this week and hadn't been out but I had decided that I was going to do my Local Landmarks run - www.llhm.co.uk/local-landmarks and I had been really looking forward to it all week. Not being people for doing things by halves me and the future Mrs Katie went the whole hog. She didn't run with me today because she is still a bit broken but we will swap roles soon when she does her local landmarks. So here is my run (solo and at appropriate distances from other runners) ... (I must also acknowledge how lucky I am that these world famous landmarks are on a 13 mile loop from home)  Bag drop attendant was suitably grumpy To be honest I could have done with the starting gantry being a bit bigger but in times of crisis you make do with what you can get I suppose! Neighbourhood number 1 - Greenwich. The Royal Observatory and the meridian line - good place to start really! The Naval College - In less contagious times...

Well.... my annual leave renews at the end of January and I had some days to take. I fully expected to spend them at home inside reading a book and having to go out running, against my will, in the cold, wet, windy misery of the English coast in January. Last Thursday this was looking likely - the sea was rough and there were a LOT of stones where there shouldn't have been stones! For those familiar with Brighton sea front - this is the worst I have seen it in 10 years of living there. However, an area of high pressure settled in and it has been a glorious extended weekend. Huge kudos to the Prom Parkrun sweepers who went out and moved a lot of the stones for Saturday morning before the council came in with the big machines and to the 514 people that turned out on Saturday morning in the glorious cold. Now for a note on the cold and appropriate clothing for those long winter runs (I did one of those as well in the sunshine on the prom). I am the kind of runner who lik...

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I have just completed a year of madness. 15 sporting events in 13 months from my first ever triathlon - Brighton Sprint Tri - in September 2018. To my first Olympic triathlon in September 2019. I did (at least) 1 event a month in between, ticked the London to Brighton bike ride of my bucket list and discovered a love for open water swimming. I did all this because I wanted to and because I like a challenge. However, the support I have had throughout has been amazing and I wanted my next challenge to be bigger and for a cause. Not being content with just running the London Marathon I have decided to attempt all three of the London Classics in one year - except, because I have already done the 2 mile Serpentine I will finish my year in September with the Serpentine Super 6! I will be doing all of this for the Youth Sport Trust @YouthSportTrust for many reasons, chief among them being that sport, especially for young people, is so important for mental health, personal identity, co...