Blog: The Starting Line workshops

I did several workshops with children aged ten to eighteen in Newcastle and Manchester to prepare to write the show and realised some things that would never have struck me without getting to chat to them, and do some poetry and performance games around ideas of health and exercise.

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Blog: The Starting Line was born

I kept being astounded by things I found out when I was training for the Great North Run last year and writing poems about the process.

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Blog: Great North During The Run Poem

The big day arrives... Kate shares her thoughts about taking part in the 2011 Bupa Great North Run in her final poem.

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Blog: One week to go

To my shock, I ran ten miles. To my greater shock, for seven miles of it, I felt like I could carry on forever.

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Blog: Tynemouth Longsands

Kate Fox's latest poem and blog 'Tynemouth Longsands'

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Blog: How to do Fartlek training

I really like running fast, that feeling when your feet are nearly off the ground. Unfortunately my legs and lungs aren’t as keen. They tell me that I’m not Usain Bolt and won’t let me do it very much.

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Blog: Runner's Block by Kate Fox

Since the back buggering run of late June, since thinking running would get quicker and easier more easily and quickly, since introducing unlimited walking breaks and since a few gaps in training and failing to miraculously lose a stone, I think I’ve been gradually losing the runner’s high that I had even a month ago.

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