If you're gong to run a long race, you need to run long in training. If you're going to run a fast race, you need to run fast. If your race is on the road, you should prepare on the roads, and if your race is on a trail... yep, you should prepare on the [...]
Pic by Josie I like beer and I like running. Sometimes I like doing them both at the same time - and I'm not the only one. Beer running is hugely popular in many different forms; from hash running to beer miles. I invited a few friends to go on a run [...]
So yeah, I'm starting a podcast. Back in October I did a couple of audio blogs of Snowdonia and Dublin marathon. This was mainly because I thought that after running them both in one weekend I'd have no energy for typing and this seemed like a good alternative. I had a lot of fun making [...]
I've put off going to the gym for more than the occasional yoga class or a quick play with the weights machines for a while now. I don't hate the gym, but I don't love it. As the weather has got colder and my legs slower, I made several promises with myself to do some [...]
I hate the phrase 'Go hard or go home'. I hate the phrase 'Bikini body'. The words 'guilt-free' when used to describe food get my back up too. There's a lot of things I dislike about how health and fitness is sometimes packaged and sold, so I'm doing something about it. For the past couple [...]
Since SnowDublin, I’ve been trying to balance two things: upping my mileage for January’s ultra and not rushing back into training and injuring myself. A couple of days after Dublin marathon my legs felt fine, good even. But I knew that they were lying to me. They’d run a lot of miles in a [...]
For the past three days I've woken up at 6am. It has been dark and cold outside. I've put the kettle on, had some breakfast, looked at Twitter while listening to Radio 4 and then headed off to run five miles though London to work. And I've enjoyed it. Getting up at 6am isn't just [...]
It's fair to say that I was not looking forward to this race. I'd entered my coach, Chris, into the Men's Health Survival of the Fittest because, well, he's a healthy man. It made sense. He asked why I wasn't doing it and apparently not being a man doesn't exclude you, so I had no [...]
Often I pull open the vegetable drawer of the fridge to get an onion or an avocado, and there it sits: one lone carrot. I buy carrots planning to eat them. I have grand plans while I'm out shopping to be the sort of person that cuts up a carrot into sticks and takes them to [...]
Club kit. Boden running tights Last December I was back in Peterborough and I'd gone to the local Parkrun. It was a frosty Saturday morning and parts of the route still had a thin layer of ice covering them. My dad had come with me and he waited at the start. [...]