Petite Feet Runaway

Don’t you wish your dad was cool like mine? To be honest, my father is quite popular with the media and it makes me jealous. He’s been in newspapers and on the radio for his running. People love that he’s a local bean counter with three daughters who loves a bit of adventure on the side. However, this is the first time he’s gone international and appeared in an e-zine. Check him out in the latest edition of Ultra Tales – he’s on page 63 with his report on running 50km consecutively for five days. All to celebrate his 50 th of course. Wonder where I get my crazy gene from?    To read Ultra Tales – Edition Three visit www.ultratales.com Don’t pity me too much though because I am also soon to appear in a magazine also. It’s published in New Zealand so I’ll claim that as international since I now use Scottish slang more often than the locals. I’ll keep you posted… Oh and if you are wondering about my 50km time in my recent track race; I did beat dad’s time.

Let's do another lap... Eighteen months ago I didn’t even know 24-hour races existed. A year ago I crewed for Matt Bixley and watched my very first one. Things went downhill after that as I got sucked into their crazy circular world. Training over the last three months had consisted of the following: -           A handful of 15 minute jogs -           Less than a handful of 30 minute jogs -           Completing the Speyside Way -           Learning to swim a mile -           Increasing my stamina on the rowing machine to a whopping 15 minutes It might not be the training schedule that you’d find if you googled ‘training for a 24-hour race’ but I worked with the body I had after a slow WHW recovery. In hindsight the Speyside Way might not have been the best idea for my whingeries but I’ll have a word with hindsight later. I had an image of Athletics tracks as bouncy. They are not. They are just red and very, very flat. I fancy a good hill in my n