Every Tuesday after my swim coaching I get on the tube with wet hair, eat a sandwich and try to shake the water out of my ears. Often I'll read a book or catch up on twitter. This week was no different other than that I'd swum 1500m during the course of the session."That's an [...]
How do you go about planning your racing? See a race you fancy and enter it a few days in advance? For the past few weeks I've added a new phrase into my running vocabulary: race calendar.It makes me sound like an elite, or at least like I should have a manager negotiating race appearance [...]
Weekends are usually devoted to racing or long runs, recovering on the sofa and trying to see friends. During No-run-vember there has been no running on the weekends for the past four weeks as my legs recovered from the last marathon and prepare for training for the next to begin.But that doesn't mean they've been [...]
How's your relationship with your physio? Do you check in with them regularly or, like a bad friend, do you only phone them up when something awful has happened and you want to cry on their shoulder? The physio may be your first port of call when you're injured, but they'll be just as happy to [...]
Whether you're zoned into your iPod or absorbed in the landscape you’re travelling through, most outdoor runners don't enjoy moving indoors to use treadmills when the weather turns bad. Many continue to slog it out through freezing rain, ice and even snow, risking injury and illness through exposure. Yet the benefits of using treadmills and [...]
Across the UK people are growing facial hair this month for male cancers. I, not through my lack of ability to grow facial hair if I wanted to, have been taking on a much more difficult challenge: not running. No-run-vember as Cake of Good Hope christened it, shares with it the same principle at the [...]
Sunday saw me putting off doing something I've been dreading for a while by doing work on a sunny autumn day that would have been perfect for cycling. Eventually I could put it off no longer and I was forced to put on my cycling shoes and learn how to ride a bike while me [...]
I remember the moment I first rode a bike free from stabilisers. My dad had been running along holding on to the back of my red Raleigh Poppet while I shouted out "Don't let go. Don't let go." My legs frantically going round and round on the pedals. I was scared to take the leap [...]
Running is a relatively inexpensive sport. Once you've got your trainers (and providing you don't want to enter any races) you're pretty much set. Shorts, tops and socks can be picked up pretty cheaply and will do the job OK.But there may come a day when you find yourself spending more time in your running [...]
Running is a relatively inexpensive sport. Once you've got your trainers (and providing you don't want to enter any races) you're pretty much set. Shorts, tops and socks can be picked up pretty cheaply and will do the job OK.But there may come a day when you find yourself spending more time in your running [...]