Training for a sub-4 marathon

After weeks of debating and deliberating, I've finally chosen which marathon schedule I'll ignore for 16 weeks in the run up to my next marathon. It's a Runners' World schedule and I've already been customising it... when I say customising - I mean colouring in.I've marked it up with a few key dates so you can [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:32+01:0028 April 2011|

The one where I go swimming

Saturday morning the heatwave we've been experiencing in London was still in full swing. I was determind not to cave and be the first person to say 'It's too hot'. Not in April. The UK is ill prepared for hot weather. It's ill prepared for any weather that isn't drizzle really, but hot weather seems [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:32+01:0026 April 2011|

Vibram Five Fingers

Running: I love it. Not wearing shoes: I'm all kinds of down with that. In fact I'm so comfortable not wearing shoes that one morning last week I left my house to go to work before realising my feet were naked. So how come it's taken so long for me to put these two pastimes [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:32+01:0024 April 2011|

Shoes, fueling strategies and pacing: lessons for life

There's many lessons to be taken from running that can be applied to various aspects of your life. Overcoming adversity, pushing through when things get tough and all that karmic stuff that might, one day, make me a better person. But that's not what this post is about. Thanks to lessons learnt running, I can [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:32+01:0021 April 2011|

Running for food

The Thames from Richmond HillIt's one of life's hilariously cruel ironies that the times when you need to run most are always the times when you want to do it the least. Hangovers often see me clawing at the carpet as Lazy Boy or some other good-intentioned person tries to shuv me out the door [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:32+01:0019 April 2011|

London Marathon weekend

I've never run the London Marathon but for the past few years I've stood enthusiastically at the side of the road cheering from the first elites until the stragglers plod on home. It's always an emotional thing to watch up close and personal. I once went to watch a World Championship boxing match and had [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:32+01:0018 April 2011|

Marathon supporter signs

Not running a spring marathon this year? Make a fellow runner smile by going down to support. Take a sign with you and cheer them up. I'll never forget the sign I saw during Brighton marathon that said "Run! Zombies are chasing you!" Be encouraging or be funny. Either way don't go for the old [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:32+01:008 April 2011|

Running for charity

"Would you like to take part in a 6km race for charity?" It was an innocent enough question that the woman outside the Tate Modern asked me this lunchtime but one that demanded a more complex answer than simply yes or no. She'd already foiled my plan to avoiding her talking to me by pretending to [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:32+01:008 April 2011|

Playfair campaign needs your support

We interupt your scheduled reading about my blisters and sore back to bring you this announcement about Playfair. As you know, I'm very excited about the Olympics coming to London - but let's make sure everyone is excited about the Olympics...Exploitation and denial of basic workers’ rights are rife in the sportswear, garment and merchandise [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:32+01:005 April 2011|

Mucky Races The Gauntlet 12K

Plan A for any runner is to make it to the start of their race well trained and at the peak of their fitness. Sometimes we have to settle for Plan B: make it to the start fit and well. Today was a Plan C kind of race day. Plan C being just make it [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:33+01:003 April 2011|
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