Bums were well and truly on seats last night for the first in the series of The Biggest Loser UK. Lazy boy was skeptical at first muttering something about 'exploitation', but the tried and tested reality TV format sucked him in and by somewhere around the second advert break he was well and truly hooked.With [...]
Choosing a race to take part in can be a complex business. I’ve spent many hours trawling through race listings and reviews to find something that’s right for me. It takes almost as much energy as booking a holiday. Whether it’s your first ever race or your first attempt at a specific distance, here’s a [...]
Forget sweaty summer afternoons or balmy mornings, for me the perfect conditions for running and those winters days like today when the sun is shining but there's still a little chill in the air. Not for me "T-shirt weather", give me "two T-shirts and tights" weather.What days like today have over warm summer evenings is [...]
Many female runners think twice before heading out of the door for a run once the sun has gone down on safety grounds. Luckily attacks on runners aren't all that common, but it's down to each individual to decide where and when they feel safe running. If you do decide to run in the dark, [...]
Sometimes you have to be creative with your time in order to fit your run in. And with Janathon calling for me to run every day in January, I've started multi-tasking in order to find time to run. I've already run part way home from work and run on my lunchbreak - stopping at a [...]
Whatever happened to food mountains? They were all the rage in the 90s but you never hear about them any more. Now a 10 metre tall pile of cheese I could deal with pretty effectively, but the 10 metre tall pile of smelly running kit that's sitting where my washing basket once was it a [...]
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 [...]
It's time to look back on 2010 and take stock of what has been achieved. I'm probably a bit late with this - the TV shows that reflect on the best songs or worst films of a year generally air about three months before the conclusion of the year. Call me old fashioned but a [...]
Welcome to a new decade and goodbye the last one. For the most part it served us well. A new year and a new decade offers us the opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start again, but that's sometimes a scary prospect. Yesterday I hit my target mileage for the year of 800 miles (to [...]
As Janathon approaches, I've been trying to channel my inner Ron Hill. A few posts back I wrote about Mr Hill and how he has run every day for nearly half a century. He's definately someone who I'll be thinking about as I tackle my 34 days of running every day. If you don't know [...]