It has just taken 1.5 hours for me to eat a bowl of muesli. Those of you that have had the pleasure of dining with me will know that I usually inhale my food. To paraphrase Ros Geller, I grew up in a big family "if you didn't eat fast you didn't eat".After more than [...]
I'm not sure if it was my pale, freckley skin, my red frizzy hair or the fact that I was running, but I turned a few heads while out on my first run in Cambodia. After a long bus journey and a day rattling about in the back of a tuktuk, I was ready to [...]
I look for youYou make no soundMy wrist feels heavyYou are not there
What are the best parks in London for running in? It was a question I was asked a while ago and I've given it a lot of consideration. Richmond Park was my playground for a couple of years, but recently living in the center of the city Regent's Park and Hyde Park have been getting a lot [...]
Marathon training, the great voyage of discovery that will acquaint you better with yourself, break down the boundaries of what you thought was possible and show you that if you practice and want it badly enough, you can in fact hold a wee for six hours. If you're training for your first marathon, congratulations because [...]
Reflecting on how I managed to achieve a huge one out of five of my goals for 2012 has made planning this year's running targets a little problematic. I don't want to set the bar too low or too high. So with that in mind, here's what 2012 may have in store for me...A sub-4 [...]
In 1770 Captain Cook first set foot in Quensland at the town of 1770. I know! What a coincidence. He'd run out of food and water and came ashore looking for something to eat and drink. He found both and had a hearty meal of 'bustard', a large bird after which he named the area [...]
There's a huge tidal swell on the coast of Australia where I am at the moment. Surfers have been flocking here to ride the huge waves or, more often than not, get thrown about by them. Sports photographers too have positioned themselves along the higher ground with their wide angle lenses pointing out to see. [...]
Blimey, where did 2011 go? Maybe it's because I ran so fast that it all seems like a blur. As you wash down the last of the turkey and many of you start to think about training plans for a spring marathon, allow me to be a little self-indulgent and reflect of what I've done [...]
Christmas Day 2009Well blow me down with a snow storm, Christmas is only bloomin well less than a week away! That's exciting/stressful/irrelevant depending on your feeling and faith. There's a lot of traditional things that my family does at Christmas like going for a curry on Christmas Eve. It's closer to the type of food that [...]