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An update: life, running and injuries
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Revisiting the Wales Coast Path
The final instalment from the coast
The final instalment from the coast
A story about the time I nearly swapped two feet for two wheels
A story about the time I nearly swapped two feet for two wheels
The final pull north
The final pull north
Sweaty, sunburnt and rather tired
Sweaty, sunburnt and rather tired
Get into your lowest gear, and just keep on turning.
Get into your lowest gear, and just keep on turning.
If you do it often enough, it will become normal
If you do it often enough, it will become normal
 
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Running a lap of Great Britain

In November 2015, I set off to run (and hike and slide and crawl) 5000 miles self-supported around the coast of Great Britain, in a bid to scratch the surface of my home country and see how far my legs could take me. Ten months later I became the youngest person and first woman to complete this journey. Along the way I saw Britain at its wild and wonderful best, ate a lot of cake and developed a terrible fear of cows.

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Seven days of wild swims done with @angharadcaswell 🏊🏻‍♀️🥳. Five dips in the River Avon at our favourite spot near home, one trip to the seaside and one splash in a weir on the Thames, feat. a mini heatwave, several rain storms, some guest app
Reasons to be glad you left London: wild swim spots like this less than an hour’s walk from your front door 🤩🤩. #loveyoubristol
Fab morning out on the trails with Mum. A few sweaty miles, a quick cafe pit stop and then a wander home. This weather is 💯 but look at that scorched grass!
Change of scenery for today’s walk and mum’s clearly pretty thrilled about it. The first time we’ve driven for exercise - only 15 mins down the road but it felt like another planet. V exciting.
Things I didn’t expect to be doing today: three hours of non-stop step ups 😅. Tech issue on the @indoorrelay live stream meant I couldn’t handover to anyone else and there was only one way to keep the baton moving... Tight calves and a s
Another fab @indoor_relay shift done feat. lots of dramatic moments. My mum prepared and cooked two pancakes while running non-stop, Sunaina’s treadmill conked out partway through her hour so she had to run the rest of it on the spot and Louisa
Great afternoon hosting the @indoor_relay. Santa showed up with a rasher of bacon, we saw a performance of the Hoedown Throwdown, I revealed my weirdest celebrity crush and my parents outed me as a control freak* to the entire internet. But we raised
Really couldn’t be happier to be back out running in the sunshine (and nothing hurting!) after 2.5 months off. Esp. with all the restrictions right now, it’s just really, really, really great to have one of my fave activities back on the
Happy birthday Dave Downing 🥳🥳. We should have been in Manchester this weekend where Dad was planning (hoping/praying/dreaming) to run a birthday sub 3 marathon... but a social distancing compliant walk and a family Zoom call are almost the same ri
Adventure on the top, nap time on the bottom? 🤷‍♀️ Setting out on a world first socks-only Everest summit attempt today (aka Mum won’t let me wear shoes on her new carpet) via @playinthewilduk’s April Everest challenge. Works out abo
Friends who say yes to 50 miles of mud, rain and questionable navigation with a week’s notice (and still want to be your friends afterwards...) 🙌🙌. V lucky to have quite a few of those pals but shoutout to @emmzos and @jazz.austin for a fab w
The Mendip Way is done 🥳🥳. 52 miles walked and jeeeez it was a sloppy one. SO. MUCH. MUD. A cheddar cheese sandwich in Cheddar crowned off an already strong snack game though, and it’s always fun (and convenient 🤓) to have an adventure that
A soggy, foggy and WINDY day out in the Brecons but we bloody loved it. Zero marks for the views, ability to stand up straight and hopes of having any feeling in my fingers, but 10/10 for the PB&J sandwiches, the laughs and the fresh (very fresh!
Without footpaths we wouldn’t be able to spend days off work walking through -15 wind chill to get to the top of a hill you can’t see a view from - and what a tragedy that would be! So much of running/ hiking/all the other varieties of ty