There's a few situations in my life when it would be really hand if I could read minds. On the tube and in bars for a start. If I could tell when my fellow passengers were about to dissembark the train I could position myself ready to slip gracefully into their seat. And in bars, [...]
Trying to plan a meeting yesterday made me realise that on Sunday, there will only be nine weeks left of 2010. That's not long, but it is just enough time to tick off those goals you might have set yourself for the year. This year my goals were:Run a marathon10K PBHalf-marathon PBRun 800 miles in 2010Set a decent 5k [...]
Last night I put my injured leg up and watched the TV and it wasn't long before I was flicking from what I thought I should be watching (BBC4) to what I wanted to watch but wasn't proud about. 'Are you fitter than a pensioner?' on BBC3 sees four unhealthy Brits in their late teens [...]
When you've been overtaken while out running by someone three times your own age and two guys with one leg (these all happened to me on three seperate runs), you become pretty realistic about your talent as a runner. With a 10K time of 54mins and a marathon PB of 4.31, I'm very much a [...]
England has a reputation for being rainy. One that I had always believed to be true, but running has taught me differently. In the past eight weeks of marathon training I've had to run four days a week and I always run at the same time, thus making it difficult to avoid bad weather, and [...]
Back in the autumn of last year when the nights were drawing in and the street lights were switching on earlier each evening, I promised Lazy boy that I would join a running club once I'd done my half-marathon so that I wouldn't be running around in the dark by myself. Four months later and I'm still [...]
When my alarm went off at 6.15am today I felt a twang of guilt as I silenced it and pulled the duvet over my head. I wasn't in the mood to get out of bed for a run that early. Two hours later as I slipped on a frozen puddle and found myself looking up at the sky from [...]
Jack frost has srrived in London. Presumably he didn't use public transport to get here because that is letting us down for the time being. Wednesday and Thursday I ran down the Thames at lunchtime expecting to see people in Victorian dress scating across its frozen surface. It was pretty cold.What surprised me more than [...]
I'm still plodding on, clocking up a few miles here and there. On Saturday I headed out to Richmond Park and now that winter has really set in it was really quiet - almost nobody but me and the hundreds of deer roaming around.I really enjoyed my run on Saturday. Maybe it was because I've [...]