I must of sat at the computer for 5 minutes trying to think up of a first sentence, and the best I could come up with was "Welcome to my Runnerslife Blog". Personally, I think that's a poor start, mind you, you could say the same for my debut at the World Cross the other day!! All jokes aside, thanks for clicking on me and having a read.

Hopefully my blog will give you an insight into what it is like to be a junior athlete in Britain, and going through the transitional phase of becoming a senior (I know, I'll be with the big guns soon!), hence Baby Runnerslife. Also, it may help get some of the younger athletes off Facebook and get them reading something else. They could find out what it is like to train at junior and university level and maybe find a useful bit of information or two. It may also be helpful for some of the juniors I am going to be racing so they can be nosey and keep tabs on how I'm doing. I'm joking, I don't mind who reads these. I've always been cool with giving out my training to people who ask, it dosen't bother me if people know what I am doing. Also, you can find out what REALLY happens when I train with Steve, he never mentions the times when he gets a good taste of my dust.

The big topic at the moment is the World Cross, and all questions will be answered in my race report. However, since then I haven't run, for a very particular reason. Today I did some cross training and yesterday I did some skipping (yeah that's right, I said skipping) and all the other days I did nothing. I'm going to be racing in the Southern 12 Stage on the weekend to have a run out for the team. Seeing as I haven't run it will be interesting to see if I'm fresh from the rest or frightfully rusty.

Thanks for taking the time out to give this a read and I hope you enjoyed it and the future blogs I do. Feel free to comment or ask questions below, don't worry, I won't bite. I also accept critism, but to be perfectly honest will probably just ignore it (joke!).

Keep it real.

Goolab xxx