Miles with Michelle

Here’s my 2026 short book reviews - please feel free to leave your own recommendations for me too. I’ll update it each time I finish a book 🙃 📚

@WorkTrainMJ I’ve no idea because my watch paused itself 3 minutes in and I didn’t notice because it was covered by my rain jacket 😆 Felt like a consistent effort though.

@mileswithshell I have run speed sessions like that in heavy rain. Miserable at the time but it works. Did the pace hold through all ten?

A soggy, damp session at the track today. 10 x 1 minute efforts out and back with 15 secs standing rest. A real speed endurance workout and even tougher in the pouring rain. But it’s good for us, right? #ukrunchat

@NotBadForHerAge Oh I’d love to visit Milan, I’ll probably be the same when I see it. Spent a lot of time in Italy but have never visited the north. Good luck fitting in your daughter’s suitcase 😆😆😆

@mileswithshell It's worth it & now I want to go to Milan to see the sights! I visited many years ago it'd be like visiting for the first time again! My daughter's going with friends in a few weeks, maybe I can stowaway in her suitcase 😂

I've just come out of the cinema (#DevilWearsPrada2 ✅👍) and am picking bits of popcorn out of my bra & trousers. My hand eye coordination appears to have malfunctioned in the dark. I won't go hungry for a while if I inexplicably find myself lost in a forest this evening 😅

An intro to canicross session this morning at @CuerdenValleyPk getting both runners and non runners into canicross and fitting their dogs into harnesses. More sessions planned for autumn now - get in touch if you’d like to be on the waiting list #ukrunchat

@NotBadForHerAge I have. A film I’ve watched a few times, so want to see this one.

@mileswithshell I really enjoyed it. Have you seen the first one?

Did the @GmRingway stage 15 (in reverse) today for its spring route check as part of Stage Guardian duties. It’s looking good. Peak bluebells 😍 #ukrunchat

@HistoryUnter I love seeing them. Always brings a smile to my face

@mileswithshell I remember the summer 🌞 of 76 when I was in Primary school, there were millions of them everywhere!

Spotted at the bus stop this morning. Happy Friday.

@oujibob It’s frightening. The only positive to this that I can see is that now there’s a lot of them at local council level, people might see that they’re actually inept ahead of general elections 😩

@mileswithshell Honestly it’s alarming, we’ve been on about it in work this morning saying the snake oil salesmen are in

Woke up to find out my town voted in a reform candidate, fuck.

Spoiler: you probably don’t need to change your running form. open.substack.com/pub/notesonrun… #ukrunchat

Floof! Fast asleep and snoring on the sofa while I did a weights workout.

We’ve just installed a wildlife pond into our back garden and I could not be happier 😍

@HistoryUnter She is very well conditioned. I let her decide where we ran today and she led us straight to the top of the hill 😁

@mileswithshell That's one fit dog 🐕 you have there !!

A couple of hills this morning. Bought a 10 litre pack from Harrier so a good opportunity to test it out for comfort. That hill in the last photo is known locally as the b*stard but it’s ok because we went down it today rather than up. #ukrunchat

@RaceMatcher They were fun. I did not enjoy the longer efforts but appreciating the benefit of them afterwards 😅

@mileswithshell Flying fifties are so satisfying. I'm the same though, give me short sharp reps all day but the longer stuff is where the real gains hide.

#TrackTuesday today we did fartlek efforts by the whistle followed by flying fifties. Always fun to get a bit of pace on. I prefer the shorter sprints to the speed endurance but the longer efforts are what I need to do more of to improve. #ukrunchat

@Jambeanie I’ve had two like this recently - I know for certain that one of them has had their account hacked.

What is this voting business? No, not Thursdays vote (in Leeds it is anyway!) But I've come on to Twitter with 2 DMs asking me to vote for them so they can be on a podcast? What in the what? Anyone have any clue? Ps. I did not click the links!

Beyond the 7 Summits is Alex Nemeth’s account of her challenge to climb the highest peak on every continent. Awe-inspiring and very honest. Available only on her website: alex7summits.com/the-book

A must-read for midlife runners. @DrJulietMcG’s The Runner’s Guide To Menopause is honest, practical and empowering, helping runners tackle real challenges with science-backed advice and reassurance. Every runner navigating menopause will find something valuable here #ukrunchat

Here’s my 2026 short book reviews - please feel free to leave your own recommendations for me too. I’ll update it each time I finish a book 🙃 📚