I love writing training plans. Whether it's for me or for someone else, taking a fresh sheet of paper, a calendar and some coloured pens and writing and scribbling until it all makes sense pleases me. I love putting in the training for a goal race, ticking off the sessions I've planned and seeing the [...]
Guest post by Phil, who has previously written about radio runner and the Hurden 18. I don’t really care about my appearance. As long as I am regarded as super hot by the leading actresses and models of the day, I am quite relaxed about my ear hair. So, I am not exactly a boxfresh type [...]
Today I went for a run with American comedian Liz Miele. Like me, she likes running marathon, so I invited her to come for a run with me through East London. You can hear some of Liz's stand-up if you catch one of her gigs while she's touring the UK, or in iTunes and Youtube. [...]
"Let's go swimming" we said. "In January", we said. "Outdoors, without a wetsuit." Back in the summer, it seemed a good idea to enter the Cold Water Swimming Championships at Tooting Lido. The championships only take place every two years. Couple that with the fact that places sell out faster than a polar bear chasing [...]
This month my publishers decided that, because the ebook version of The Lazy Runner had been pretty popular, they'd release a paperback. It was a very exciting day for me to get a delivery of real books made of paper with my name on them. I've posted copies to friends and family, the first in [...]
On my biggest Ironman training weekend last year, I left the lido having swam 3km for the first time. My friend Josie took a photo of me jumping in the air ecstatic. It wasn't just because I'd swam further than I'd ever swum before but because I'd just read an email that said that Tricurious, [...]
Just four miles into the race I laid on the floor looking up at the sky. Seconds earlier I had been running along, following a thin trail of runners ahead of me, trying to keep up and keep them in sight so as not lose my way. I turned a corner, slipped on some ice [...]
On Saturday I gave a talk at the Breast Cancer Care marathon training day. Half of the runners will be taking on a marathon for the first time in April. I stood there, having now done 11 of them, to share what I've learned along the way. I tried to tell them that everything will be [...]
The first week back at work after Christmas is always a struggle. This morning, as I carried my bike down five flights of stairs because of a broken lift, I realised that this ultra marathon I'm doing is getting quite close. A week ago I could still think of it as being 'next year'. Today it's [...]
For the fourth instalment of my podcast I met adventurer Anna McNuff to go for a run and chat about her upcoming challenge to run the length of New Zealand via trail. You can follow Anna's challenge on Twitter and via her Facebook page. In the second part of this podcast I finish the year [...]