by tanyabottomley | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog, Inspiration
I’ll admit, I’ve feel like I’ve been cruising along a little bit for the last almost four months. Riding high on the success of three milers well run, feeling strong, capable and A-OK! Then this week happened. Heart racing whenever I thought about the race, I...
by tanyabottomley | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog, Inspiration
Full disclosure here. If you don’t have the luxury of COVID-19 lockdown to read this somewhat ‘whole-hearted’ blog post, then I won’t blame you for skipping to the last couple of paragraphs where I sum things up. For everyone else, I’ll shout you a beer for bearing...
by tanyabottomley | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog, Inspiration
I wiped the tears, picked myself back up and we set off to devise a plan for our own 100 mile adventure. I came here to run 100 miles, my crew were here, my friends who were running Northburn were keen as mustard (standard trail runner mentality to ad-hoc join me in...
by tanyabottomley | Jul 30, 2020 | Blog, Inspiration
What? I’m taking on the epic mission to be the first woman to complete the Thir Southern Seasons 100 Miler Challenge. – Four 100 mile trail running races in 12 months – Minimum of 24 hours running in each race – An extreme test of human endurance and spirit Why? As...
by tanyabottomley | Jun 10, 2019 | Blog, Inspiration
Sitting through uncertainty is the hardest thing, and this week I found myself wishing life was as simple as running. When I’m running, I know that all I have to do is just keep taking the next step. Whatever challenges, highs or lows come my way I know that they...
by tanyabottomley | May 31, 2019 | Blog, Inspiration
So it seems I was under some misguided impression that as I got better at running the running would get easier… But it doesn’t seem too! ? Today I realised that maybe it won’t get easier but I’ll just get better at it. Yeah, yeah you’d think I would have twigged to...
