Last weekend I went home and got talking to the family about running. My immediate family has no runners in it but apparently there may be running genes in the family.One of my uncles did the London Marathon a few times and ran the first Berlin Marathon after the wall came down. Another uncle told [...]
I knew it would happen sooner or later, and I'm glad in a way that it happened sooner - yep, I've got a cold which has seriously hampered my efforts to stick to the training plan.I managed a grand total of 2 miles in week one of my training. This was on Tuesday in the [...]
I'm going public in the hope that it will spur me on to honour my place and run in the Silverstone half marathon. Training starts this week - all 16 weeks of it. The big day is Sunday 15 March. Do I look excited?I do have major concerns, not just about my ability to complete [...]
Since the Wimbledon 10k, the running has subsided a bit. I think I've run three times in total in the gym and had one very unsuccessful attempt at running outside. I was in a bad mood and I stormed out the door and didn't stretch fully before I started. I thought that running angry would [...]
My first 10k Hooray for me - I did it. I made it round the Wimbledon 10K in less than an hour only stopping briefly at the top of the hill to let some traffic pass (I was quite pleased to be able to stop for a minute). The last two kilometers were really hard and I [...]
My number arrived for the Wimbledon 10K, number 54. It was very exciting, however on the reverse is a form to fill in with your medical details etc 'in case of emergency'. Reassuring!On Saturday I went out for a 5-mile run joined by me flatmate and nemesis. He has put in less training than me [...]
On Saturday I was visiting the homeland, East Anglia, which is a much more agreeable terrain for a long jog. Maybe it's because I'm from The Fens that I have such a problem with hills. I'm genetically built for the flat and, over generations of living there, maybe my family have evolved and lost whatever [...]
I'm pretty convinced I can run 10K in a respectable time and not collapse at the end. That's 10K, no more and over a flat terrain. The problem with Wimbledon is that there is a very big hill in it and this hill forms part of the course for my 10K.Quite a few weeks back [...]
I love running. It's the first time I've said the words and it took about the same length of time to be sure how I felt about it as any new relationship. Now I've to committed myself to saying that out loud and I have no regrets.I know there'll be hard times when I want [...]
Yesterday the gray and miserable weather was not making it easy for me to get excited about the 3 mile run I was supposed to be doing. I sat at my desk toying with the idea of putting it off a day but, as I got to my front door, the clouds that had been [...]