Racing 30hours after landing back in the UK after 15hours travelling is always going to be fun but I wanted to see how I would feel coming straight down from altitude. So I chose to do a low key 5k in Hyde Park so I could just concentrate on how I feel and not whats going on around me.  I won .. Read More

This race was important for obvious reasons with it being the European Trials so since my break the aim had always been to qualify and thats what I did coming 4th so am happy with that. I knew the trial race was short but up until the Friday before I didnt realise it was only 4.4k... My first reac .. Read More

16-10-2010 East League Cross Country, Stirling - 1st. The course was similar to the BUCS Cross Country course in Stirling. I found it sapped your energy quite a bit as it was very uneven ground for alot of it and there were a few tough hills or bumps as someone referred to them : They .. Read More

My cross country season is officially underway. It started this Saturday at the Scottish East relays near Edinburgh. For about 2 weeks before the race I hadnt been feeling great, just tired and although some sessions had been solid some had been pretty bad. I'd also had to stop my core for a bit bec .. Read More

Friday 13th....supposed to be an unlucky date. I couldnt believe it when I found out my race was on Friday 13th, with the season ive had which hasnt been great, it was kind of like 'as if....' but I thought well hopefully its not unlucky and ive just got to make sure I do everything within my contro .. Read More

Another 5000m... This time at the England Champs which are being used as the commonwealth games trials. I had mixed feelings about this race in that the result didnt look that good and the time was slow, but I felt strong especially towards the end considering I had been on the front  and more .. Read More

Finally a decent result!! It was very hot in Birmingham on Sunday and it starts to make you question.. why am I deciding to run 12 and half laps in this heat? But I did and it went pretty well.. I came 7th in 16.33 in my first British Senior Track Championship so cant complain too much. Its n .. Read More

Sorry its late.... This was the big race of the season it was the Junior AAA's and the World Junior Trial Races. Although i'd already run the World Junior Trial 5000m in Manchester, its always important to run well at the British Champs so this was my aim when I lined up in the U20 3000m on Sunday. .. Read More

Debut 5000m on the track !!! I was really looking forward to this race and as usual had high expectations of myself even though it was my first time over 5000m on the track. My initial thoughts were 'how hard can it be....I run 6k over cross country all the time'.... bit naive I know but this is h .. Read More

Yesterday (Sunday) was my first 3000m of the season at the Loughborough International and I was really looking forward to it as I think im in shape and was in for a good result. What I didnt know was how hot is was going to be (27 degrees at 6pm). It was horrible and I think many will agree that it .. Read More

First Track Race of the Year!!! and I was dreading it the week before and all the memories of my past 2 summers came back and I was expecting something to go wrong. Until I woke up yesterday and thought "im going to stand on the line regardless" so I thought about it and decided what race plan I was .. Read More

The national senior 6 and 12stage relays have always been somewhat of a tradition amongst many clubs for many years, so as a young athlete I had looked forward to being able to run against the seniors and see what I could do. The first year (2009) that I was old enough to run the relays, my coach an .. Read More

People keep asking me "what happened?" and at first all I could say was "im not fit enough"but I don't really believe thats true because I wouldn't of stood on the line if I didn't think id make the team, so I had a think and spoke to my parents and Liz and we realised how tired .. Read More

Ive ran the National Championships every year for the last 6 years, so this year shouldn't of been any different. However unlike previous years when ive gone into the Nationals fit and with no problems, this year was different in that I missed a whole month of running (even longer with build up .. Read More

Am almost at the end of my month of altitude training in Kenya so I thought I’d update you on everything that’s going on. First of all, I’m happy with the training I’ve done in Kenya, I managed to get consistent weeks mileage in and it has increased every week which is good .. Read More

  Sorry I haven't put a blog up since the Europeans, I had quite a bit going on over Christmas as am sure quite a few people know now that I have moved back home to Farnham, there are various reasons for this which am not going to go into, however I am still be coached by Liz so that's good. A .. Read More

Not long before we fly out to Portugal now!! Our flight is at 7am tomorrow (Friday) morning so am leaving Carnoustie in just over an hour and will stay in Manchester before the early flight tomorrow. Im not going to lie, I really dont like the fact were flying so early as im going to have to be up a .. Read More

Morning. I know my blogs are usually a bit "today I did this, tomorrrow im doing this" So I thought id change it a little this week because im sure this is something all young athletes and maybe older athletes can relate to. Its whether or not you sometimes feel like your missing out on what .. Read More

Evening :) (Just for Les (sarahs dad)) I do try and not be the 'typical' blonde.... making stupid remarks. Today... I failed amazingly! First of all during the session this morning (saturday) we were told "1 to go"... I then turned round and said to Eilish "2 to go then"... she just looked at me a .. Read More

I've been back training a few weeks now so im back into the routine of early nights, early mornings and running miles again. I'd like to say my day started at 6am but i'd be lying because although my alarm goes off at 6am, im rarely/never out of bed before quarter past or 20past. A normal day for me .. Read More

Well am back in Scotland and training after what was supposed to be a 2 week break but ended up being about 2 and a half because I got ill with a really bad cold and throat infection in the last week or so. I'm recovered from the cold but I think the sore throat is still hanging about as my heartrat .. Read More

Hey :) Am on my end of season break now after my last race over 3k at Crystal Palace!! This consists of having a couple of weeks completely off any training or anything associated with training, Eating what I want and going out, seeing my friends and generally doing everything I stop doing when im .. Read More

Sorry this is late... I did forget to put one up at the end of last week so thought id put one up tonight :) The last two weeks have been pretty uneventful just the normal working and training. Friday last week I travelled down to Gateshead for the England Championships. I was staying at my uncles .. Read More

Evening :) Am back in Scotland now and planning my next few weeks training and racing... I think im going to run the Commonwealth trials in a few weeks but obviously that depends on how my training goes between now and then. My last race at the Senior AAAs went ok and I came 7th in my first British .. Read More