Ailments! Oy Vey!

My back and shoulders are so bloody tight that every morning I wake up feeling like something has popped out of place, but it hasn’t, it’s just tightness! I feel really lopsided as well! It was irritating and worrying me on my run this morning. I kept trying to pull down my right shoulder. Gonna […]

Charity Profile: Make-A-Wish Foundation

In the spring of 1980, American 7-year-old, Christopher James Greicius was being treated for leukemia. Christopher had always wanted to be a policeman. U.S. Customs Officer Tommy Austin befriended Chris and worked with officers at the Arizona Department of Public Safety to plan an experience to lift the poorly kid’s spirits. Chris spent a day […]

Charity Profile: Starlight Children’s Foundation

The Starlight Children’s Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving quality of life for children with chronic or life-threatening illnesses. The organisation was founded in 1983 by Dynasty star, Emma Samms, and producer Peter Samuelson after Samms lost her 9-year-old brother to aplastic anemia. The foundation’s programs serve to distract children from their pain, […]

36 weeks 6 days 19 hours and 40 minutes to go…

It’s been roasting most days this week, so I put on a tank top and capri yoga pants for my run this morning – a decision I instantly regretted when I stepped out into the arctic chill that comprises arbitrary mornings any time within the months of March and September in Britain. Within yards of […]

Hello, I’m Amanda.

I’ve never done any kind of a distance run in my life This one time, I went for a run outside and within five minutes a bird pooped on me. I swore I’d never run outside again. But this year I just got an itch – to do a marathon. Just once. Just strike that […]