I promise this is relevant. Let's be honest: your friends and family probably don't give a crap about your running. They might have done a while ago, but now they mostly tune out when out talk about it and wonder what they're going to have for their lunch. But don't blame them for this, [...]
Have you run a marathon? Yes? Well score one to you, score zero to Dr Frasier Crane. Frasier, like many people, wanted to run a marathon but he never got round to it. Remember the hilarity that resulted from the hospital mixing him up with another patient who then died? The newspapers and TV stations ran [...]
Let's quote Matt Fitzgerald again: "If it does nothing else, a runner's training must make him feel prepared, because if he feels prepared, he is prepared, and if he doesn't, he isn't." Sound advice.This weekend and next weekend are the last big push of marathon training before the easing back into the leather armchair that is the taper. [...]
If there's an excuse for missing training, I've probably used it. But there's one excuse I won't be using not to run: the riots in London. Because, us Londoners have had to put up with a lot of shit over the years - but we carry on. That's what we're good at. On the morning after [...]
It's a close call between what I like more: running or watching American sitcoms. I'd actually like to live in a perpetual cycle of doing one or the other with the only interupptions to this being the occasional power nap. I'd also need someone to bring me food but I'm pretty confident I could negotiate a [...]
In exactly one year's time the women's marathon of the 2012 Olympic games will be underway right here in London. In celebration of this fact, last night I ran one lap of the 8 mile loops that the women's and men's marathon compertitors will do three times on the official course. And for your viewing [...]
One of the unexpected outcomes of moving 10 minutes from my office is that I've been watching more episodes of Friends recently. Turns out there really isn't anything worth rushing home for TV wise in that 5-6pm slot. And as E4 shows around 5,574 episodes of Friends per week, it really is hard to avoid.I [...]
A pictoral post today, no words necessary really, but if you'd like some - here's a few sung (if not coposed) by the Sugarbabes. But what you've no doubt been waiting for is the picture below. Here's me and MrNiceguy on last nights traditional Red Dress Hash Run. It was really hot last night and [...]
Training plans are rubbish aren't they? It's the way they stare at you making you feel bad, inadequate and underprepared that I hate. It's difficult to argue with them because they don't compromise, however long you stare at the words "8 miles steady" they don't change.I've tried to avoid crosses on my training plan by using arrows, annotations, [...]
Frustrated at my minorly injured leg and worried that sub-4 glory was slipping away, last night I decided to throw the last remaining weapon in my arsenal at said leg. Yes I've had a sports massage, yes I've iced it and RICE'd it and rubbed ibuprofen and foam rollers on it and, while these help [...]