What your partner needs to know about running

If you're new to running, or thinking about stepping it up a gear to take on a few races, there's a few things that your nearest and dearest need to know - for your sake and theirs.You're going to be a bit of a boreAchieving new distances, times and tackling hills you once thought was [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:19+01:0030 January 2012|

In the beginning

Unless you're one of those annoying people who could run pretty much as soon as they could walk and that always looked forward to the annual school sports day with the excitement that most of us save for Christmas or a pint at the end of a long week, everyone sucks at running when they [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:28+01:0026 August 2011|

The reurn of The Biggest Loser

The Biggest Loser returns to our screens next Monday and I for one cannot wait! Not least because the lovely Davina McCall will be presenting it. I got into this show quite late last time round because, not having Sky, I hadn't seen the previous series. What I like about it is that is shows [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:39+01:004 January 2011|

Things I wish I’d known when I started running

The first week of January and the number of runners I'm seeing on the streets is definitely higher than it was a week ago. That's not just because the roads have shed the layer of ice that they had last week but that New Year's resolutions to get fit have forced people outside. Seeing them [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:39+01:003 January 2011|

Advice on running

While I was in France last week, not running and eating lots of cheese, I got chatting with a woman who was a nurse in the UK. Despite not being a runner or having any inclination towards becoming one, she began to lecture me on the subject. I was willing to hear her out  - [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:45+01:0030 July 2010|
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