When plans were announced years ago for a cycle superhighway through London, first I did an excited little yelp and then I imagined an express lane for bikes through the skies of the capital. It seemed so far in the future that these plans would actually materialise that I wondered whether we'd all be pedalling hoverbikes [...]
After 24 hours of nil by mouth I munched my way through a fair few Krispy Kremes. This was more than sufficient fueling for pathetic 2 miles on the bike. Repeat after me everyone: "this is not the way that sub-4 marathons are built". Well tomorrow is, as they say, another day on the schedule.
Oh yes, I must do my core strength exercises. I'll do them after I've eaten this sandwich. Ah, core strength time. I'll do the plank and some crunches after EastEnders has finished. It that the time already? Oh, I'll just do it for twice as long tomorrow. This is how it usually goes in my house.Yesterday [...]
"You're running how far?" Usually when people say this to me it's with an impressed sound to their voice and I like to do a little, inner, self-satisfied smile. "It's a half-marathon so 13.1 miles" or "A 10k, so about 6 miles" usually precedes this. Or once "It's a cross country so just a couple of miles [...]
I've been putting off venturing to the athletics track on a Saturday morning for a while now. Three main reasons for this are: it's much easier to stay in bed on a Saturday morning where it's warm and comfortable, I've been hungover on Saturday mornings and I know it will hurt.I'm not fan of the phrase [...]
After weeks of debating and deliberating, I've finally chosen which marathon schedule I'll ignore for 16 weeks in the run up to my next marathon. It's a Runners' World schedule and I've already been customising it... when I say customising - I mean colouring in.I've marked it up with a few key dates so you can [...]
Saturday morning the heatwave we've been experiencing in London was still in full swing. I was determind not to cave and be the first person to say 'It's too hot'. Not in April. The UK is ill prepared for hot weather. It's ill prepared for any weather that isn't drizzle really, but hot weather seems [...]
Running: I love it. Not wearing shoes: I'm all kinds of down with that. In fact I'm so comfortable not wearing shoes that one morning last week I left my house to go to work before realising my feet were naked. So how come it's taken so long for me to put these two pastimes [...]
There's many lessons to be taken from running that can be applied to various aspects of your life. Overcoming adversity, pushing through when things get tough and all that karmic stuff that might, one day, make me a better person. But that's not what this post is about. Thanks to lessons learnt running, I can [...]