Wrap up of 2024!

Official events:

• 5 road marathons (Limassol, Madrid, Milton Keynes, Palma, Lanzarote)
• 22 trail marathons
• 5 x 100 miles+ (my most in a year, and including my first indoor 24 hour track event)
• 15 other ultras
• Total is now #357

Non-official events:

• 4 marathons (South Downs Way, Surrey Hills and Chichester)
• 3 ultras (recce-ing the LDWA Speyside 100 route ahead of the event, plus a 56 mile overnight SDW run)
• Total is now #84

Enjoyed lots of shorter adventures too - particularly in Canada (avoiding bears), and getting used to my new routes (and hills 🤣) in Scotland.

Outside of running, it's been quite a year! Got engaged, sold a house, bought a house, moved countries, finished a job and got a new job....all very exciting, but also quite challenging and overwhelming. I did get quite stressed and struggled with all the changes sometimes...so running has been a good way to disperse some of the angst. Many adventures and chat-athons were completed in the process, with many miles of smiles shared with friends and family - thank you! I feel really lucky to have the opportunities to do all these things, and to have travelled and explored new places this year.

Thank you for the support for my blog throughout the year!

Wishing a Happy Moo Year (from me, and my new nearby neighbour)!

Here's to new adventures in 2025, but also to keeping tight hold of the special people and experiences I have been blessed with so far 💕 

Lanzarote Marathon, 07.12.2024

My third time at the Lanzarote Marathon, but the first time coming from Scotland! Hence, it was a bit more of a mission to get to, but well worth it.

3 hour drive to Edinburgh after work on Thursday with Andrew and Tricia, a stay in the Purple Palace, and an early flight out of Edinburgh on Friday morning.

Met Sarah at Lanzarote airport!

Found our villa, in near Teguise, about 15 minutes from Costa Teguise, then headed to pick up our running numbers at the Expo.

Prepared with pizza, relaxing at the villa, and an early night. 

Andrew kindly gave us a lift to the start, just in time to see the sunrise! I found the organisation of the marathon wasn't as good as normal this year, but it was still a great event. Caught up with lots of marathon friends from back home at the start, then an excellent chat-athon followed with Sarah, and Craig for the first half, which was superb fun.

The marathon is an out and back along the coast to just past the airport in Arrecife, and it's a lovely route, I do like it a lot. 

Weather was nice and warm and sunny the whole time, and windy on the way back on the second half. 

Nice to see more friends afterwards, and soak up the atmosphere. 

Made the most of an extra week out there with plenty of sightseeing.