The events I’ve booked myself into and the all important “Why?”. This is so I can compare what I thought the event would be and when I eventually blog about the event and what it actually felt like. Everyone is different so my views are purely from my point of view. Enjoy 😉
Events I’m booked into.
Date – Day – Distance k – Location – Event name – Booked? – Paid – Comments
13/11/16 Sunday 42.2k Steppingly Step marathon LDWA Yes £8.00 (71)
2017 Events planned
15/01/17 48k Winter Tanners YES (72) (booked)
12/02/17 48k Punchbowl (73) (booked)
05/03/17 Chiltern Kanter (74) (not booked yet)
14/04/17 Friday 42.2k Enigma Good Friday YES £36.00 (75)
15/04/17 Saturday 42.2k Cakeathon YES £40.00 (might not do marathon)
16/04/17 Sunday 42.2k Chocathon YES £39.50 (might not do marathon)
30/04/17 Oxon 40 (76) (not booked yet)
28/05/17 Hmmmmm
03/06/17 Farthingstone Foot Fest (78) (not booked yet)
18/06/17 Wales Trail Marathon (79) (not booked yet)
25/06/17 Herts Hobble (80) (not booked yet)
09/07/17 From Here to There and Back (81) (not booked yet)
18/07/17 Fairlands Valley Challenge (82) (not booked yet)
31/07/17 Saturday Lakeland50 YES £90.00 (83)
11/08/17 Salisbury 54321 ??
13/08/17 3 Forest Way Ultra 54m ??
27/08/17 St Peters Way in a Day 45m ??
06/09/17 Dunstable ??
10/09/17 Chiltern marathon ??
01/10/17 Heart of England ??
12/11/17 Shillington Shuffle 2017??
Dates might change.
Events I have completed.
Date – Day – Distance k – Location – Event name – Booked? – Paid – Comments
04/01/14 Saturday 42.2k Milton Keynes Enigma Winter Double YES £28.00 Didn’t go – Got up late and bad weather DNS
25/01/14 Sat-Sun 0.0k Lakeland Fells Lakeland50 reccie YES £15.00 – 16 miles of dark muddy fun.
09/02/14 Sunday 48.0k Surrey LDWA Punchbowl Marathon YES £6.00 – 30 miles of sunshine, hills and muddy fun – 9hrs 19mins. (15)
22/02/14 Saturday 8k Nottingham LBAC Cross Country fixture YES – 5 miles of hilly, muddy fun – 48mins. I ache!!
02/03/14 Sunday 21.1k Silverstone Silverstone Half Marathon YES £18.00 – A chilling, windy 3 laps of Silverstone in 2hrs 5mins. A whole 4mins faster than last years attempt.
09/03/14 Sunday 21.1k Milton Keynes Milton Keynes Half Marathon YES £25.00 – Sunny & hot 2hrs 28mins. Not my best time but I had a great time with Julia and Kelly.
23/03/14 Sunday 32.0k Bedford Oakley 20 YES £27.00 – Cold but sunny 3hrs 55mins of gentle hills around Bedfordshire. Tough going but had loads in me to push for a fast pace at the last two miles.
06/04/14 Sunday 42.2k Brighton Brighton Marathon YES £63.00 – Cold sea breeze 5hrs 30mins of cheering crowds and ocean views. (16)
13/04/14 Sunday 42.2k London Virgin London Marathon YES ? I won the Club Place! – 26.2 miles of cheering crowds of awesomeness completed in 5hrs 27mins. An amazing experience! (17)
18/04/14 Friday 42.2k Milton Keynes Enigma Good Friday Marathon YES £28.00 – A very good 4hrs 48mins of Caldecotte Lake. (18)
05/05/14 Monday 42.2k Milton Keynes Milton Keynes Marathon YES £36.00 – A lovely sunny 5hrs 28mins. The new route was tough going in the first half. (19)
17/05/14 Saturday 80.0k North Downs North Downs Way 50 YES £75.00 – A hot fantastic 13hrs 29mins 15secs. Got my money’s worth there! (20)
25/05/14 Sunday 42.2k Liverpool Rock and Roll Marathon YES £40.00 – DNS – wrecked feet need a bit of heeling time.
01/06/14 Sunday 56.0k Northampton Northants Shires and Spires YES £39.00 – DNF – Still knackered from NDW50. Never underestimate what your body has gone through!!
21/06/14 Saturday 42.2k Wales Wales Trail Marathon YES £30.00 – DNF – Well, I did the half marathon but I went there to do a marathon and my right knee decided it wasn’t to be. Bum!!
28/06/14 Saturday 42.2k Dorset Giants Head Marathon – Sydling st nicholas YES £30.00 – Woohoo 7hrs 9mins of fluffy clouds and blue skies that should have been showers and hard work. (21)
05/07/14 Saturday 42.2k Milton Keynes Enigma Summer Marathon YES £26.50 – 5hrs 22mins of wet laps of Caldecotte Lake. Blergh but fun. Haha! (22)
06/07/14 Sunday 42.2k Milton Keynes Enigma Summer Marathon YES £26.50 – 5hrs 55mins that started out as painful but finished successfully. Phew! Roll on Lakeland50. (23)
13/07/14 Sunday 42.2k Tenby The Wales Marathon YES £30.00 – DNS – Family time. Sometimes Family Time is more important than running.
20/07/14 Sunday 42.2k Stevenage Fairlands Valley Challenge YES £15.00 – 7hrs 4mins in the very hot sunshine. Heat exhaustion not to be repeated please. (24)
26/07/14 Saturday 80.0k Lakeland Fells Lakeland50 Lake District 2UTMB YES £72.00 – 21hrs 9mins of awesomeness!! Epic EPIC EPIC!!!!!! Flippin loved it. It was incredibly tough. Will I do it again?………….Hmmmmmmm (25)
10/08/14 Sunday 42.2k Salisbury Salisbury 54321 marathon YES £18.70 – DNS – After a two late nights out to a birthday party and a wedding reception waking up early was not going to happy. Dang it!!
17/08/14 Sunday 42.2k Cheddar Gorge Cheddar Gorge Marathon YES £32.50 paypal 03.12.13 – DNF – I managed a 4 hour half marathon time. I was still tired from Lakeland50 and the hills (fabulous tho they were) killed me!!
14/09/13 Sunday 42.2k Dunstable Dunstable Marathon Challenge YES £19.73 – 7hrs 3mins of lovely blue skies and lovely company. (26)
20/09/14 Saturday 42.2k Wycombe Beauty & The Beast YES £37.00 – DNF – This event is truly a beast with some beautiful views. Wellies for next year lol!
28/09/13 Sunday 42.2k Nottingham Nottingham Marathon YES £36.00 – DNS – Migraine? Low iron? More rest? Who knows!!
05/10/14 Sunday 42.2k Chester Chester Marathon YES £42.00 – 4 hours 46 minutes – Where did that come from? Had a fabulous time, book again next year. (27)
18/10/14 Saturday 51.2k Leighton Buzzard Leighton Ultra £FREE – 7 hours 58 minutes – Needs some work before I can make this an official event but it’s a wonderfully challenging route!
26/10/14 Sunday 48.2k Bishops Stortford Stort 30 YES £33.00 – 6 hours 18 minutes – I’ll take that with a big grin thank you very much. (28)
02/11/14 Sunday 42.2k Stevenage Stevenage Marathon YES £27.00 – 5 hours 8 minutes – Wasn’t feeling great and took it easy. Easy!!! 5k Lunchtime runs are a must from now on!! (29)
16/11/14 Sunday 42.2k Barton Le Clay BB&N Shillington Shuffle YES £17.00 – 7 hours and 17 minutes – Had an amazing time with Claire and Emma. So much fog, mud and rain. Brilliant fun!! (30)
13/12/14 Saturday 42.2k Milton Keynes Enigma Buff Xmass Marathon YES £32.00 – 5 hours 2 minutes of freezing lake temperatures and slippy bridges Brrrrrrrr (31)
31/12/14 Wednesday 42.2k Braintree Flitchway Marahthon YES £25.00 – 5 hours 4 minutes of scenic unused rail line and a killer finish hill!! (32)
11/01/15 Sunday 48.2k Surrey Winter Tanners YES £4.00 – 9 hours 42 minutes of getting lost, getting lost, getting lost and……getting lost. Tough but fun day. (33)
08/02/15 Sunday 48.2k Surrey Punchbowl Marathon YES £10.00 7 hours 56 minutes of fun/fun/more fun/route reading/mud/fun. A whole hour faster than last year! (34)
08/03/15 Sunday 42.2k Chiltern Hills Chiltern Kanter YES £8.00 6 hours 59 minutes of mud/hills/fun. Below 7 hours for an LDWA event. Awesome!! (35)
15/03/15 Sunday 42.2k Salisbury Larmer Tree Marathon YES £32.00 5 hours 37 minutes – where did that come from? Did not expect to be that lively or fresh throughout this one. Mud/hills/fun as usual (36)
04/04/15 Saturday xx Volunteering Centurion South Downs Way 50 – Who knew taking down runner numbers could be so enthralling that I didn’t realise I’d been sat for over an hour getting extremely cold!! LOVED IT!!
06/04/15 Monday 42.2k Milton Keynes Enigma Strikes Back YES £32.25 – Nope. DNS. To knackered/ill to run 😦
12/04/15 Sunday 42.2k Paris(France) Paris Marathon YES €99 – 5 hours and 41 minutes. loved the 5k breakfast run. Ran at the back of the pack for the marathon and enjoyed the sights and smells of Paris. (37)
09/05/15 Saturday 64.4k Overton Ridgeway 40 YES £19.00 – No. Another DNS which is starting to bug me!!
03/05/15 Saturday xx Volunteering Centurion Thames Path 100 – Marking 13 miles of the course, duties at an aid station then midnight running with Kate from 78 miles to the finish. What a weekend!!
24/05/15 Sunday 42.2k Dorset The Ox Marathon YES £30.00 – Change to the ultra to help sweep and timed myself out. Lessons learnt and fun definitely had. Will be back for this one!!
30/05/15 Saturday 42.2k Kent Roadrunner Marathon YES £38.00 – 5 hours 28 mins of laps, laps, laps, laps, laps, laps, laps, laps, laps, laps…….. (38)
06/06/15 Saturday 42.2k Farthingstone Foot Fest YES £15.00 – 8 hours 17 mins of hilarious frolicking around hilly fields. Leighton Fun Running at its best! (39)
20/06/15 Saturday 42.2k Wales Trail Marathon Wales YES £35.00 – 6 hours 33 mins of hills, rocks and midges. Brutal but fun! (40)
27/06/15 Saturday 42.2k Dorset Giants Head Marathon YES 32.00 – 6 hours 37 mins of being baked in the Dorset countryside. I’ll be back for more please (41)
05/07/15 Sunday 43.5k Wellingborough From Here to There and Back YES £7.00 – 8 hours 2 mins of long hills, craggy fields and a run around a reservoir (42)
12/07/15 Sunday 10k London British London 10k – yeah I know it’s not a marathon or ultra but it’s running with a friend. 59mins 39seconds – below 1 hour target achieved!
19/07/15 Sunday 50k Stevenage Fairlands Valley Challenge YES £18.50 – 8 hours 33mins where I tried to race the first 10 miles to catch up with LFR’s doing the marathon distance. Fun! (43)
25/07/15 Saturday xx Volunteering Lakeland 100/50 – SO MUCH FUN!!!!! I am hooked on this event. Hooked!!
01/08/15 Saturday 42.2k Hampshire Midnight Marathon YES £28.00 – 8 hours 30mins which included a superman attempt (ouch). Badgers and creepy woods/fields. (44)
09/08/15 Sunday 50k Salisbury Salisbury 54321 YES £20.00 – 7 hours 29mins. Did the ultra this time and its worth the extra mileage and the run around the castle. (45)
30/08/15 Sunday 42.2k Milton Keynes Enigma Shaken not Stirred YES £33.00 – 5 hours 6mins. Where did that come from? Running laps whilst listening to Monty Python was lonely but good fun. (46)
13/09/15 – Sunday 42.2k Dunstable Marathon Challenge YES £21.85 – 6 hours 8mins of painful insides from mile 10. Was actually a bruised diaphragm! Sheesh! Still good fun though. (47)
23/09/15 – Wednesday 42.2k Dover The Tolkien Run YES £35.00 – Dressed as Galadriel with no opportunity to change into ANY running kit!! 6hrs 1min of the lady in white in front of the Dover cliffs (48)
26/09/15 – Saturday 42.2k Costwold Challenge LDWA YES £7.20 – Beautifully hilly, sunny, muddy tough but brilliantly fun day. 7hrs 39mins (49)
26/09/15 Saturday 161.0k St Oswald St Oswald’s Ultra YES £85.00 – The ULTRA DNS!!! Grrrr.
03/10/15 Saturday 42.2k Warwick Heart of England Challenge LDWA YES £15.00 – met some fun runners with sandwich and tea at 10 miles YUM. 6hrs 8mins plus a tree got planted! (50) HALFWAY!!
10/10/15 Saturday 45k Guildford 9bar9x9 Marathon YES £38.00 – Tougher than it looks. I’ll be back to try this one again. LOVED it, great organisation.
21/10/15 Wednesday 42.2k Back to the Future marathon YES £30.00 (51) The only getting lost was getting to the start!! Rain/no rain/rain run day, didn’t have much company but it was a good day. Still not keen on laps tho!!
24/10/15 Saturday 42.2k Wales Snowdonia Marathon YES £30.00 (52) 3 hills I was told. 3. I ran/walked 2 of those hills and was too knackered to run/walk the last one. The downhill to the finish? WWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
07/11/15 Saturday 42.2k Milton Keynes Enigma Firework Marathon YES £38.00 (53) Ran my little legs off to get a PB 4hours 43mins! Terrified of an aeroplane flight on Monday spurred me on!
15/11/15 Sunday 42.2k Barton Le Clay BB&N Triple Challenge Sundon Saunter YES £20.00 (54) – Mud, fun, mud, fun, mud – oops!! Forgot to bring headtorches!! D’oh!! FUN!!
29/11/15 Sunday 50k Gatliff marathon LDWA YES £7.00 (55) – Slippy mud, sticky mud, high heel mud, mud hiding deep puddles, sliding down hills and swan lake in the middle of a slippy mud field! Plus – “Many Steps” Yup. I had fun!!
20/12/15 Sunday 42.2k Portsmouth Coastal marathon YES (56) – wind/rain/mud/rain/wind/blow dried home!! I was on a roll!
28/12/15 Monday 42.2k Thames Path Phoenix Year End marathon YES £28.00 – No 😦 Too knackered from running every day in December.
31/12/15 Thursday 42.2k Braintree Flitchway Marathon YES £36.00 – No! Got to the halfway point just a little too late. Better luck next time!!
10/01/16 Sunday 50k Winter Tanners YES £6.00 (57) – Oh that was muddy wonderful fun!! 8hrs 58mins – goodness me there was soooo much mud!!
14/02/16 Sunday 50k Punchbowl YES £6.00 (58) – Still a good one to complete and loved every minute of it all over again even though it was a struggle. 9hrs 2mins
04/06/16 Saturday 42.2k Farthingstone Foot Fest YES £16.50 (59) – Walked most of it, loved it all over again, even with all of those stiles!! 8hrs 25mins
25/06/16 Saturday 42.2k Giants Head marathon YES £33.50 (60) – Hilly, just hilly!! Ouchy hilly!! 7hrs 15mins
03/07/16 Sunday 42.2k From Here to There YES £8.00 (61) – Still like this one, it’s a local one and worth doing every year. 7hrs 20mins
10/07/16 Sunday 42.2k North Downs Way Marathon YES £36.00 (62) – WOW!! I remember those hills, they’re still big and tough but I did it!! 6hrs 34mins
16/07/16 Saturday 42.2k Dorset Invader YES £33.50 (63) – Romans, hills, countryside! It was a fabulous day out in Dorset! 6hrs 51mins
30/07/16 Saturday 80.5k Lakeland 50 YES £## (64) – DID IT!! Finished angry?!?!?! Feeling really good about it now. 20hrs 39mins
14/08/16 Saturday 42.2k Salisbury 54321 YES £20.00 (65) – Fabulous 100 marathon club get together for Carolyn’s 100th marathon celebration. 7hrs 3mins.
20/08/16 Saturday 42.2k Bad Cow Marafun YES £33.50 (66) – It was all going so well until mile 20 then horrible cramp for 2 miles. No day 2. 5hrs 55mins
04/09/16 Sunday 42.2k Dunstable Marathon Challenge YES £23.00 (67) – Those hills are no smaller each time I try to get faster on this course!! 6hrs 10mins
11/09/16 Sunday 42.2k Thetford Iceni Marathon YES £25.00 (68) – Lovely bimble around Thetford with friends. 7hrs 3mins
18/09/16 Sunday 42.2k The Ponton Plod YES £14.00 (69) – The organisers managed to find some hills in Lincolnshire and it was beautifully tough. 7hrs 18mins
23/10/16 Saturday 42.2k Snowdonia Marathon YES £35.00 (70) – Dreaded the thought of this race, pushed through a lot of pain, 45min course record!! WOW! 5hrs 40mins
Being a pedant, aren’t the marathons 42.2km not 41.9 🙂
Lol, okay. When I get a chance I’ll go back and change then all 😉
Most of them are more than 26.2 miles by the time I’ve finished them anyway. Salisbury 54321 is 27 miles lol!
broadmeadow is going up from August so enter quick! xx
Ooooo. Ta 😉