This week I was visited by my former self in the shape of a tweet from an old friend. It all began on Wednesday when I was invited onto a radio show to talk about how I got into running and about the book I wrote.It was a strange experience being on the radio but [...]

New Soleus GPS watchIf Santa didn't know what to get you and left you cold hard cash, you might be thinking about getting yourself a GPS running watch. I've been testing the Soleus GPS Fit 1.0. At £99 it's a competitive price for a GPS watch and for that it does everything you need it [...]

Have a lot of race mementos that you're flatmate/partner/dog keeps pushing to the back of the cupboard out of sight or race t-shirts you never wear? Well step this way because like a sweaty Kirstie Allsopp I'm about to show you how to disguise your race bibs, medals and t-shirts as homewears. The kind of homewears you might buy [...]

The new year is a good time to reflect of the past 12 months and set some goals for the 12 ahead. I don't do resolutions because if there's something you want to change there's no time like the present - fixing it to the new year will only make you put it off. But [...]

Good news, if you're a runner you're much better prepared than the average person to survive Christmas. The same goes for an apocalypse but as Christmas is the more pressing of the two scenarios, I'll deal with that one for now. The Christmas Party You need to approach this with the same level of planning as you [...]

So far this year I've run 660 miles. That's down on the 763 miles I ran in 2011 and a lot less than the 801 miles I ran in 2010. I can tell you all these stats because I, like many runners, am a slave to my training log.Nerdy? Perhaps. Useful? Certainly. Just those three [...]

How do you go about planning your racing? See a race you fancy and enter it a few days in advance? For the past few weeks I've added a new phrase into my running vocabulary: race calendar.It makes me sound like an elite, or at least like I should have a manager negotiating race appearance [...]

Whether you're zoned into your iPod or absorbed in the landscape you’re travelling through, most outdoor runners don't enjoy moving indoors to use treadmills when the weather turns bad. Many continue to slog it out through freezing rain, ice and even snow, risking injury and illness through exposure. Yet the benefits of using treadmills and [...]

Across the UK people are growing facial hair this month for male cancers. I, not through my lack of ability to grow facial hair if I wanted to, have been taking on a much more difficult challenge: not running. No-run-vember as Cake of Good Hope christened it, shares with it the same principle at the [...]

LazyGirl lent me Murakami’s What I talk about when I talk about running and I found it pretty dull. Jogging a bit, blah, listening to Jazz, blah blah, thinking about my race times, Zzzz. I didn't run at the time and imagined my own jogging thoughts would be “When can I stop/When can I stop/Great, I've stopped.”Having [...]