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Hardmoors Princess Challenge

North York Moors, Saturday, August 30, 2014

30 miles

Kate Macpherson

Last Saturday as we drove from Durham towards Whitby and the sunrise turned the North York moors from grey to purple, I wondered what on earth had possessed me to get up ‘mind numbingly early’ (as Anita Dunseith had put it) to go and run for 30 miles. I had never run anything longer than … Continue reading Hardmoors Princess Challenge

Edinburgh Half Marathon

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Kate Macpherson

So thanks to Kathryn Sygrove setting me a challenge last summer, I found myself in the starting pen for the Edinburgh Half Marathon last Sunday. It’s been a very long time since I’ve run a half. About 10 years. And before last September I hadn’t really run for about 7 years. So I was feeling … Continue reading Edinburgh Half Marathon