March 2025… I watched the 2025 Tunnel Ultra with interest and decided that when entries opened I would complete the form to be considered for a place in 2026. Shortly after this I was following the Northern Traverse…a totally different but also very difficult ultra event. I decided I’d love to try the slightly shorter […]
Author: emilyplummer
my light-head revisited
It is the start of October 2025 and I’ve not put any update out on my YouTube recently. I am such a perfectionist when it comes to my own videos that it takes me forever to put together a 10 minute video, hours spent picking the right music, making titles etc. But I have been […]
Lakeland 500
I sit down on a bench at a round table, littered with empty plastic glasses and paper cups of tea, and sit our son Ted, on my lap. My mum hands me a bottle of warm milk. I lean Ted, 14 months old, into the crook of my left elbow as usual, and he starts […]
PB, Pregnancy and Back Again
As I write this, yesterday was my 8th London marathon. Somehow I managed to get round at a personal best time. A year ago I was watching the race from the sofa at home, 8 and a half months pregnant, finishing off a box of magnum ice creams by myself. Now the medal is hanging […]
Grand Union Canal Race
I was introduced to GUCR a couple years ago. I had asked Mimi Anderson to help me in my training for Lakeland 100 and that same year she was running both TP100 and GUCR not long after. I was inspired to have a go and in autumn 2015 I entered the ballot for the 2016 […]