Final two months of a long race year In the first 10 months of the year, if you include parkruns (which I’d ran at race pace), I’d ran 48 races. That’s over one per week! They’d been of varying distance and terrain, which had really helped me stay ‘sharp’ for the big events. I’m not […]
Recap… In my 2022 review parts one (here) and two (here), I’d took you through my gradual progression in the first half of the year – getting stronger, fitter and increasing my endurance levels. In May, I’d belted out a couple of trail races, ran a 10km PB, survived a very testing long training weekend […]
OTM 2022 Race 3 (17th Sept.) Review Perfect sunny, dry and cool (around 15c) conditions were provided for the runners of the final race of the series. Some of the front-runners waited with anticipation to see if certain speedsters (Billy, Katey etc.) would enter on the day once again. Whilst we had three join us […]
OTM 2022 Race 2 (August) Review Following the first race in July (read the review for that race here), we went again with the second (of three) race on Sat 20th August. For race 1 we had 22 people register and 20 of them turn-up (two DNSs), for race 2 this had increased to 30 […]
OTM 2022 Race 1 (July) Review On Sat 16th July, TheRunBible hosted it’s first actual in-person event in the North West of England (after plenty of virtual and solo versions, during the dreaded recent pandemic times of 2020 & 2021). The first of the three-part 1-mile Old Tram Mile 2022 race series went really well! […]
Old Tram Mile (OTM) Solo Series: July 2020 After the success of our two OTM Solo Series runs (uphill and downhill) in June we went again in July…with a few tweaks… We charged a small fee (£2) to cover our prize costs, Gave folk the option to run a course closer to them over the […]
Old Tram Mile (OTM) Solo Series: June 2020 Following the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and social distancing regulations being brought in, we witnessed mass postponement and cancellation of our favourite (large and small) running events – replaced by a flood of virtual events you could run anywhere and that didn’t motivate some of us […]