News from the Trails

Options. They are everywhere and they are many. They are a blessing and can feel like a curse! There is one particularly insidious one that

It might not be what everyone aspires too. Long days on the trails, muddy puddles, sweaty clothes, breathless ascents of steep, relentless hills and daring

It was so good to be back into my full training program last week after strict instructions by Coach Carlos to recover from the Naseby

What do we *need* to be happy? Well, if you ask Google you get about 7,810,000,000 results! Clearly, this is a question a lot of people want

So I was just going about my business, getting ready for work when I was stopped in my tracks. I was jolted out of the

When your coaches words of the week post-race are “love your liver” you know shit is getting real. Sitting in the doctor’s office for three

Post disclosure. I’m an excitable writer. My brain dumps words onto a page and the result might be a wee bit ‘wordy’ sometimes. Some of

Soooo, I have to admit a shit storm of bad decisions on a run week before last, left me with a foot injury that we

It’s hard, it’s uncomfortable, but it’s necessary. Over the last couple of months since sharing my story, I’ve had a number of conversations about domestic

You know the feeling….It’s a few weeks out from race day, you’re feeling pretty good.   You’ve put in the work…but always feel like you could

Ahem, yes, hello. My name is Tanya and I’m a running addict and chronic over-trainer. It’s been three months since I dug myself out of

What a great week it’s been! The start of the week began pretty low key with my first walk programmed into my training!  I felt

The taper is on for WUU2K next weekend! It feels like AGES since I’ve run a race when in reality it’s ONLY been 7 weeks

Just in case you needed a visual…100 miles is a pretty long way!

I’m taking a break from my “this week is brought to you by the letter ‘X’ blog, as I’ve had a tune running around my

Running to raise awareness of domestic violence.  I’m not sure which has been harder, putting down on paper the true depths of the reasons behind

So, it seems those satisfying snot-rockets of last week were a tell-tale sign of a less than satisfying cold to come!  I was relegated to

It would seem that this week has been brought to you by the letter ‘S’, so let’s add snot-rockets as well, as there was a

So it seems I was under some misguided impression that as I got better at running the running would get easier… But it doesn’t seem