Balancing training and a social life is something I've never got quite right. I've either cut myself off and become a social recluse while I clock up the last months of marathon training, over indulged on a Friday night and barely recovered by the time the long run beckoned on Sunday morning or multi-tasked by running [...]
Marathon training is hard. This is something I realise as soon as I start training for one of these things and then immediately forget as soon as I cross the finish line.On Saturday I spent the morning giving a talk to a group of 60 runners taking on the London Marathon for Breast Cancer Care and the [...]
I've got two spots at the Rock 'n' Roll Edinburgh Half Marathon to give away - that's one for you and one for a friend. If you want one - put your name in the comments or tweet me 'I want to win' and a winner will be chosen at random next week.The Rock ‘n’ Roll [...]
Around mile seven of last weekend's long run two guys crossed the road in front of me and headed towards Finsbury Park. As they crossed one looked at me and then said to the other: "Where do you go for your runs?"It was a simple enough question, but for the remaining miles of my long [...]
By way of a what I like to think was a 'welcome to the neighbourhood' the people at Teva invited me for a run with them on Hampstead Heath to celebrate, not actually my moving in round the corner, but the launch of their new shoe.Teva are an outdoors footwear brand and you're probably more [...]
After a Christmas spent either ill or nursing injuries and hangovers, the start to the latest marathon campaign was off to a rocky start and those lofty goals for 2013 looked under treat before I'd even got out the blocks.But some antibiotics, a lot of stretching and something called 'being sensible' seemed to do the [...]
10 Tips for Beginner Runners Starting running can be intimidating and, well, let's be honest, hard work. But if you persevere it DOES get easier and you WILL start to enjoy it. Here's how... Get a plan You may be just starting out and not considering a specific race yet, but you still need a training [...]
There's a lampost by Blackfriars Bridge that is half a mile, or roughly 800m, from Waterloo Bridge. And there's a stretch of Tuffnell Park Road that provides a good 400m straight between side roads. That's 400m without risk of being run over.I know this because I've measured them online, then gone out with my Garmin [...]
One thing that stood out from London 2012 was quite how many medals Yorkshire athletes collected. The county finished up with seven gold medals, two silver and three bronzes, which would have placed it twelfth in the medal table if regarded as an independent country."There's something in the water" came the headlines. But was there - [...]
The body is an amazing but baffling thing. Millions of years of evolution have given us things like thumbs, essential for opening jars of olives and texting a mate to say you're running late. We can stand up straight and run fast (well some of us can) for a bus. But there's still a few [...]
