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Personal Trainer based in Morpeth, Northumberland

01/11/2026

Onwards 🤝

23/10/2026

The affect of having no race booked within the next 6 month 🤣👉

22/10/2026

Marathon Recovery Strategies 👉

20/10/2026

Massive Lessons Learnt.

Obvious one being fluid intake and sodium.

Time to get to work with IAM Nutrition and get it all right nutrition wise and never let that happen again.

Few races getting eyed up towards the end of this year or definitely early next year.

Buzzing for it 🫡

18/10/2026

York Marathon 2026 (3:17:54s)

Not one of them people to say “it’s not my day” as I’d end up saying that every single day🤣

Prep was absolutely perfect, nutrition, how I felt running, no GI issues, came in half way at 1:28 and felt very comfortable, heart rate was in control and I actually slowed down on purpose thinking let’s just go for a 1:32 second and cruise in.

30k had different plans, cramp absolutely everywhere, I’ve always been a salty sweater and I did take some sodium but clearly not enough, massive lesson learnt.

5 mins post race I can’t lie I cried as I had spent the last 16 weeks literally focusing on this, you feel hard done by when it does not go your way especially when fitness wise I felt absolutely fine, just some sniper in the crowd decided to take off my right hamstring.

Massive massive appreciation to Sienna Roth for supporting me and getting up stupid early, it does not go unnoticed and I coudint’ be more grateful ❤️

Also to Logan Soulsby first half was great craic, then he took clean off the bastard. Proud of the guy though the man spins about 900 plates at once and still runs 100km weeks consistently.

Work to do.
Jobs not finished.

17/10/2026

York Marathon Tomorrow 🤝

How I’m feeling is I’m absolutely raring to go, 16 weeks of probably the hardest block of training I’ve ever done but enjoyable at the same time if that makes any sense, proper structure, direction and control with the block where I never ever felt completely burnt out except for a couple of niggles which were manageable.

Still a lot of hours put in, a lot of times where I could not be arsed one bit to stick the running shoes on but many people have got involved with my training which has been a massive boost and I appreciate that a lot.

Listening to a podcast on the way down talking about how race day should be a celebration and all the hard work is done, shifts you’re mindset a bit to think that I’ve done 16 weeks of hard work, tomorrow is or should be about enjoying it.

Plan is to do exactly that, hopefully the majority of it can be enjoyable then if I need to dig deep, the training I’ve done shows that I can.

Sub 3 is the aim, won’t be bad for a debut marathon 🎯

14/10/2026

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13/10/2026

Fuel Strategy 🎯

For me personally and for everyone it should be a massive priority if you are doing half marathons or full marathons.

Took me a while to for one know what to have, when to have it, brands, type the list goes on but this I find is absolutely bulletproof for any event I’m doing where I need to be optimal.

Precision Fuel & Hydration
MARCHON

The two brands I swear by, never had a single issue GI wise with either of them.

The Plan:

1 hour Out: Marchon Workout Fuel (20g Carbs + 200mg Caffeine) with 300ml water.

15 Minutes Out: 30g Precision Fuel Gel

20 Minutes In: 30g Precision Fuel Gel

40 Minutes In: 30g Precision Fuel Gel

1 Hour In: 30g Precision Fuel Gel

1 Hour 20: 30g Precision Fuel Gel

1 Hour 40: 30g Precision Fuel Gel

2hrs: 30g Precision Fuel Gel

2hrs 20: 30g Precision Fuel Gel

2hrs 40: 30g Precision Fuel Gel

Hopefully finishing around 2:56-2:59.

The plan is to carry a soft flask, with 500ml of water in, mixed with 30g carb + 500mg sodium mix from Precision fuel and hydration, that’s going to be gradually sipped across the whole race with having additional water from the event itself every 5km.

Also going to carry 1 extra gel just incase I need it, as well as a few 250mg electrolyte tablets incase cramp kicks in towards the end. It’s not particularly a hot race but knowing how much I sweat it will probably be needed towards the end.

Buzzing for it 🎯

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