by Women Running Penarth | Oct 18, 2019 | Marathons, Race Reports, Road Running
by Erika Fitzgibbon Chicago, Sunday 13th October 2019 This was to be my 15th marathon and my 5th of the 6 Abbott World Marathon Majors (just Tokyo to go). Training went well until week 8 out of 18. I ran 15 miles @11 min/mile. It felt good to be a couple of weeks...
by Women Running Penarth | May 8, 2019 | Marathons, Race Reports, Races, Road Running
by Clare Jones The day was perfect for the marathon – cool and sunny. I’d been busy training for the marathon for about 5 months, so why did I feel so nervous? I’d never run that far before; the longest race I’d completed was a half marathon, and...
by Women Running Penarth | May 18, 2018 | Marathons, Race Reports, Road Running
Last year, Julie wrote about her experience of Liverpool Rock and Roll Marathon as a first time marathon runner (read her story here); read on to find out how it feels the second time around… by Julie Pemberton So last year I hogged everyone’s newsfeed as the...
by Women Running Penarth | Nov 20, 2017 | Marathons, Race Reports
by Erika Fitzgibbon I was very excited when I got a ‘good for age’ place in the New York City Marathon as this was going to be my 4th World Marathon Major after doing London in 2010, Berlin in 2013 and Boston in 2015. Preparations started over a...
by Women Running Penarth | Jun 5, 2017 | Marathons, Races, Road Running
by Julie Pemberton Me, a Marathon runner? Surely not! I don’t particularly consider myself to be a natural runner, in fact I wasn’t a runner at all until about 18 months ago. Funny how these things creep on you before you’re aware of how much your life will change! A...
by Women Running Penarth | Jun 1, 2017 | Marathons, Races, Trail Running
When Charles Dickens wrote “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” he couldn’t have known that his words would, one day, perfectly describe what most runners feel at the end of a race. There’s always a point in any event when the...
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