A pictoral post today, no words necessary really, but if you'd like some - here's a few sung (if not coposed) by the Sugarbabes. But what you've no doubt been waiting for is the picture below. Here's me and MrNiceguy on last nights traditional Red Dress Hash Run. It was really hot last night and [...]

Frustrated at my minorly injured leg and worried that sub-4 glory was slipping away, last night I decided to throw the last remaining weapon in my arsenal at said leg. Yes I've had a sports massage, yes I've iced it and RICE'd it and rubbed ibuprofen and foam rollers on it and, while these help [...]

The folks over at Run Dem Crew, who I've yet to make it out with on a Tuesday night yet (I will soon, promise), posted this creative task that they've set their 'youngsters'. It invites you to write your own running manifesto by finishing a few sentences. Here's mine:Running is…a privilege.Running is not…a chore.I run…away from [...]

For most runners, hitting the treadmill very definitely falls into the category of 'Plan C'. When it comes to running, we'd all much rather the picture we have in our heads of running along an amazing stretch of coastline, along a mountain trail or through the countryside: that is Plan A. But as we live [...]

I love junk TV. It's been too long since I watched Gillian Mckeith making some morbidly obese person cry or Dr Christian introducing two people with polar opposite eating disorders to each other and making them swap diets. My favourite part of these types of show is when some minimum wage researcher is dispatched to [...]

Last week I took a photo of everything I ate and drank (except water). Here' the results...Here's what I learnt from this experiment. Or you can view the food in all its hi-res glory here on Flickr.

This is a text conversations between me and my buddy Mr NiceGuy who is also doing the Robin Hood Marathon in September. It's his first marathon:

Eddie Izzard and Matt Fitzgerald share a philosophy: you have to believe you can do something before you can do it. Last night I watched 'Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story' again just to hear Eddie tell me the following: You’ve got to believe you can be a standup before you can be a standup. You [...]

Blogger stats tells me that more that around half my readers are in the US. Hello to both of you. And also a belated happy 4th July. Tonight, in honour of your nation severing its ties with our motherland, I drank some beer. Yes, it was a day late, but check it out. Now I [...]

My desk. 5pm.Colleague: Fancy a quick pint?Me: Ummmmm.....This morning I got up at 6 and trekked across London for an appointment. I didn't get to work until 10.30 so felt too bad to do anything more than eat a bagel at my desk. The afternoon was busy but my training plan stared up at me [...]