Week Eight - February 2025

Week Eight - February 2025 - 23/02/2025.

on March 15, 2025

Wow! I haven't posted my blogs in a few weeks but it has been a busy and brilliant few weeks😊 so I will try and catch up with the last few weeks! x

I landed back home from Birmingham the weekend of the 16th Feb after the Keely Klassic which was so fun!

The weekend of the 22nd and 23rd I went on a fun, solo trip to the North East which I'd been wanting to do for a while to be honest! I didn't realise at all until I went up there, I was saying to my Dad after my trip, how green, fresh and full of countryside County Durham is! It made the driving really pleasant.

Highlight of the week:

One particular highlight would have to be taking part in my first trail run - a 5k in Hamsterley Forest in Bishop Auckland!

I didn't really appreciate it until I did the event how rural and hilly the terrain on trail runs would be!!😂😂 I think I was being very literal and thought a trail run would be following a trail path and not necessarily so challenging.

I remember talking to my coaches after and they said how times have to go out of the window and it is based on effort really which is fair.

It was great as in it felt really fun to do and a great challenge and the scenery was breath taking! It was also really beneficial in a strength-sense as it definitely worked my muscles hard to deal with the elevations and different surfaces.

I didn't realise that runners went with their dogs too! I saw many an owner being dragged ahead by their dogs wanting to get going faster!😂😂

The sheep were adorable, this ram was so friendly and let me stroke him!💖

Another highlight of my weekend has to be doing an easy run and strides around Bishop Auckland town centre itself! I stayed in a really nice apartment and it felt so good to have it all to myself! I got cosy in the evenings on the sofa and had a good read and watch of tv, it was good self-care.

I had driven about three hours up there so my easy run was such a welcome way to release my legs and loosen them off!

A self-care positive:

My Rodial facemask the night before my trail run was so refreshing and gave me a glow, I loved it!

Cat Boys of the Week!

Leo and Logan! Adopting my legs as their perch for the night 😍 an honour!💖💖

Favourite snack of the week:

It has got to be this gorgeous pecan caramel shortbread I got from Tebay Services! What a winner! I saved it for after my Trail Run and it was worth the wait! A worthy runner-up, also from Tebay Services would be these gorgeous croissants I had! One I had the evening after driving up to Bishop Auckland and one I had right after the trail run too!