by Jackie Wilson | Apr 12, 2020 | My Life
Every year since my son turned three, I’ve written a little blog post about him on his birthday. Today he turned seven. I got an email from a website I signed up to when I first had babies that has sent me regular age specific updates ever since. Today it said...
by Jackie Wilson | Mar 9, 2020 | Uncategorised
Sometimes it takes a while for your feelings to catch up with your brain. The 2020 Boston Marathon is now six weeks away. I’m 12 weeks and over 500 miles into training for it. I did a 12 week training plan before that, just to prepare for the training. Just before...
by Jackie Wilson | Dec 31, 2019 | On Running
As the year closes, I feel that natural compulsion to mark it somehow. As today goes on, in the many time zones in which there are people I love, I’ve seen this happen in many ways; Nine special photos, announcements of exits from social media, years in review, happy...
by Jackie Wilson | Dec 21, 2019 | On Running
It’s here we go again for another marathon and this time it’s a (THE?) big one. It feels different though in quite a few ways. I’ve written a lot about this journey. I’ve been on it more or less for two years now; deciding to try for it, getting injured, going again,...
by Jackie Wilson | Nov 13, 2019 | On Running
This year it felt like I hadn’t run in many races. Then I realised what had happened. I’d only run one that had a serious time goal for its motivation. OK, that was a big hairy arsed time goal, but really there was only one like that. There have, however been 9...
