This week I was visited by my former self in the shape of a tweet from an old friend. It all began on Wednesday when I was invited onto a radio show to talk about how I got into running and about the book I wrote.It was a strange experience being on the radio but [...]
I dragged myself from an inflatable mattress surrounded by boxes to a local pharmacy in search of some stronger drugs."Have you taken ibuprofen?""Yes.""And paracetamol?""Yes. They're not doing anything. I need something stronger.""You're going to have to see your GP."I'd moved flat, not yet had my bed delivered and had become ill. The only training that I'd done in the [...]
New Soleus GPS watchIf Santa didn't know what to get you and left you cold hard cash, you might be thinking about getting yourself a GPS running watch. I've been testing the Soleus GPS Fit 1.0. At £99 it's a competitive price for a GPS watch and for that it does everything you need it [...]
Have a lot of race mementos that you're flatmate/partner/dog keeps pushing to the back of the cupboard out of sight or race t-shirts you never wear? Well step this way because like a sweaty Kirstie Allsopp I'm about to show you how to disguise your race bibs, medals and t-shirts as homewears. The kind of homewears you might buy [...]
The new year is a good time to reflect of the past 12 months and set some goals for the 12 ahead. I don't do resolutions because if there's something you want to change there's no time like the present - fixing it to the new year will only make you put it off. But [...]
Good news, if you're a runner you're much better prepared than the average person to survive Christmas. The same goes for an apocalypse but as Christmas is the more pressing of the two scenarios, I'll deal with that one for now. The Christmas Party You need to approach this with the same level of planning as you [...]
It's Christmas and, because I've been especially good this year, Santa has rewarded me with an early release of my book The Lazy Runner. It's available now on Amazon and iBooks for reading on your iPhone, iPad or computer. You can also get it from the Kobo store and pretty much any other purveyor of [...]
I'm lucky to live less than half a mile from a swimming pool. This is quite uncommon in London. Living so close removes the obstacle of having to make a special effort to trek across the borough with wet hair and carrying a soggy towel.Although there's a pool on my doorstep, I swim in other pools too - I'm [...]
So far this year I've run 660 miles. That's down on the 763 miles I ran in 2011 and a lot less than the 801 miles I ran in 2010. I can tell you all these stats because I, like many runners, am a slave to my training log.Nerdy? Perhaps. Useful? Certainly. Just those three [...]
Nearly five years ago, when I started this blog I really had no idea why I was doing it and, in the early days, barely anyone read it. I hadn't even told my friends and family about it so my hits sat at zero. But gradually people started to drop by, and they would leave [...]