A little more insight

Well here we have it, I've said for ages that I'd do a blog and now I have!!!  Here's a little bit of background up to today.  I've only been running properly for a few years, in 2009 I did my first ever 10k (for asthma UK) to see if I could run, and I didn't like it very much, the training or the race, do I didn't try again for a while!! Then one day I decided I was going to do what I'd always said I'd do "one day" I entered VLM!! I was lucky enough to get a gold bond place through Asthma. The training was hard and I was riddled with injury having 3 foot X-rays at A & E over the winter with suspected fractures!! At one point the physio said I probably would need to defer but from Feb I was on my way and put in pure pavement miles to ensure I got from start to finish, which I did although as I mentioned before, slowly!!!  That was it, I'd caught the bug!! Before I knew it I'd entered Brighton, London and MK for 2012 as well as MK and Silverstone halfs!!  Brighton was a pb by 29.55 mins, MK both the half and the marathon were pretty much swimming not running, horrendous weather for both!! In fact MK marathon was bad from start to finish for me and resulted in me losing all confidence in myself and running. It's taken 4 weeks for me to recover from that, granted 2 in 2 weeks was a push but even so.  I've recently got myself a road bike and I've been loving getting out on that it's kept me ticking over while I've not run, and probably improved my legs no end.  Just this week I had a fab few runs, today was probably my best ever, and included 4 miles under the 9.30mm, which for me is my best ever (remember I said I was slow) and I did 8 x 30sec hill sprints also.  All in all my confidence is sky high currently and I cant wait for my next session!!!  Ultra you are my'ne!!!