2013: 1234 miles, Running with 75,000 people and wearing ALL my Race Tees

2013 … How on earth do I sum up an entire year in running?

Numbers of trainers owned this year: 

8 pairs (Salomon Speedcross3 – 2 pairs, Asics gel Hyperspeed, Asics GT2000 – 4 pairs, New Balance spikes, Hoka Mafete Low)

That's a lot of shoe rubber left on the trails, roads and pavements this year!

Countries run in in 2013:

England, Holland (for a tram counts, right?), Cyprus, Ireland, France.

Number of races run: 10

That’s approximately £330 in race entry fees. Eek!

Number of runners run with in all my races:

Approximately 75,900. That's a lot of miles covered between us!

Number of DNFs: None.

BUT 2 x Did Not Starts ... New Forest Marathon, Great South Run. (Due to calf injury and illness) Booooo!!

Miles run according to fetcheveryone: 1234 (although it’s not quite right as it’s got me down as only running 33 miles in October. I ran 2 races in October and one was a marathon ...!)

But that's not enough to sum up 2013 ….

I know ....THIS will sum it up. Here - check out ALL of my awesome 2013 medals.

But wait ... that’s not enough ...

Here are all my RACE T-SHIRTS for 2013. At once. Phew! A bit warm!

And just to finish it off. ALL my 2013 medals AND all my 2013 race t-shirts.

Highlights of 2013:

• Running Paris Marathon as part of #target262. 20 minute PB, a negative split and 10 minutes under target. That’ll do Pig, that’ll do. 

• Running Endure 24. A 24hr race. I divided my time between sunbathing, running and camping in the portaloo.

• Trying to run a sub-20 5k time without having a poo.

• Thunder Run 24. Blistering sunhine, torrential rain and really sticky mud. 54 miles. 

• Running the Wolf Run and getting really muddy and getting stuck in bogs.

• Meeting sheep that moo during the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge. 

• Pain and ice cream at Bournemouth Marathon. 

• Dressed as a police officer running up hills, at night, away from MASSIVE cows.

• National Cross Country Relays. Thought my eyeballs were bleeding. 

• Running the Essex Way at night with a mulled wine stop. 

• Chasing mulled wine through the lanes of Warwickshire dressed as Santa Claus

• Being lucky enough to get a guest spot on some of my favourite blogs! Goldilocks Runs , Dashing Divas,  Running Late,  Abradypus  and Born To Plod Blog.