Tag: Marathon

5 things you want to know…

Well… maybe you don’t… but as I am on the last day of my 6 month round the world trip I thought I’d answer the questions I’ve been asked most by friends, locals and travellers alike in the past few months… 1. How much did you pay for your ticket? £2274  ($3400) for a one year round…

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No Guts No Glory

It’s 6am and I’m removing my newly purchased visor (I’m trying to blend in) and standing in silence as they belt out the national anthem to 2000 crazies gearing up to run 26.2 miles. Patriotism over, the commentator shouts GO! (where’s the gun dude?) and I jog over the start line and focus on… umm… focussing. To my left…

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Scottish girl plods

In essence I didn’t want to leave Myanmar. I summed up my reasons in a typically biased manner in 5 Reasons I Love Myanmar but the 28 day visa had only one day left on it and so I had to cross the border into Thailand pronto. Perhaps I should have followed up the previous…

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Singapore Marathon Joy!

2:30am Sunday morning in Singapore and I am creeping round my dorm room scooping up all my marathon related paraphernalia and hope there’s no one around the common area – I look like a total weirdo dressed to run at this time of the night, pouring boiling water into my ready-made porridge. The whole situation seems absurd. Due…

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