Manchester Marathon 2021
It’s that time again. My precious day off after the marathon, where I spend the day eating, drinking, and reminiscing on the sofa, overflowing with pain and pride. When you’re a recreational runner, these moments are so monumental and unforgettable that they...
Marathon memory lane part 2
3. London, April 2016 Time: 2:51:29 Halfway: 1:26:57 With: John Conditions: Freakishly perfect. Sunny and cold again Fresh from breaking 3 in Rotterdam, I waited eagerly for the London Marathon Good for Age entries to open in August 2015, and secured my place for...
Veganuary 2021
Veganuary is back, and more popular than ever, with over 500,000 people signing up in 2021. Inevitably this also means more backlash than ever from the closed-minded meat-chompers who feel threatened by plant-based diets, but I find it’s best not to rise to the...
Where ICU meets sports nutrition
Isn’t it bizarre how trivial conversations or moments can stick in your head? I often think back to such a moment in September 2019... Despite having promised to myself in 2013 that my life in academia was finally over, having qualified as a Registered Dietitian,...
Race week booster
Good nutrition goes hand in hand with good training, and should start long before race week. However, a smart fuelling strategy in race week (not least race day) can be transformative to performance, and it is understandably an area that many clients want to focus on....
Marathon memory lane
I struggle to accept the fact that this week marks two years since my last marathon, but that’s what my phone has been telling me, so accept it I must. And while I don’t have any 2021 races inked into my diary just yet, I am starting to consider options for a winter...
2020: An unforgettable year as a runner…and ICU Dietitian (part 2/2)
July and August The second half of the year started in a similar fashion to June – just enjoying being in good shape and the very gradual easing of lockdown restrictions and return to some semblance of normality across the UK. This included our ‘Last Man Stands’...
Plant-based milks: 6 top tips
There is one section of every supermarket and corner shop that is unrecognisable from ten years ago: plant-based milks. Or ‘mylks’, ‘m*lks’, or sometimes, confusingly, just ‘drinks’. I’m going with ‘milks’, partly for simplicity and partly because it amuses me that...
Why do sports nutrition qualifications matter?
Even before completing my qualifications to become a Registered Dietitian back in 2013, I was pretty sure that at some point I would work in sports nutrition. Given that I spend the majority of my spare time playing, watching or thinking about sport, it always seemed...
2020: An unforgettable year as a runner…and ICU dietitian (part 1/2)
Perhaps a little self-indulgent, but this year has been unforgettable for all the right and mostly wrong reasons, so here's my month-by-month recap. I'm lucky that running is a constant in my life, and something I can turn to on even the hardest of days, so I've based...
