Despite looking forward to it for a while, I couldn't make the inaugural North London Half Marathon (illness and schedule clash), so I dispatched Phil instead. Here's how he got on. What young boy has not dreamt of running out onto the Wembley pitch, pulling out his mobile phone and taking a sweaty selfie of a gurning [...]

I've been eating these energy balls for a while and when I posted a picture on twitter last week declaring that I make the best energy balls around, I had a few requests for the recipe. 'Recipe' is a bit of an overstatement for the way you make these balls. You throw four or five things [...]

I can swim 1500 metres without much fuss. I didn't used to be able to do this. Not so long ago swimming 15 metres would have been a struggle. But now I can do that 100 times over. I'm trying to remind myself this. Thinking of it as half an hour splashing up and down the [...]

Last year I stood by the side of a road in Sale cheering for runners: friends I was there to hand drinks to, people I didn't know, some I recognised but hadn't met. I waved my sign, told them they looked awesome and shouted my head off for a good few hours as runners went past [...]

Pic by Simon Lamb www.sixsecondshigh.com Thousands of runners, supporters, officials and vendors have gathered at the bottom of Parliament Hill. Flags of many colours have been stabbed into the muddy ground marking out a few meters of turf as being the gathering point for various running clubs for the National Cross Country Championships [...]

"What do you want to do for your birthday?" "Run and drink beer." And that's what we did. Last year I persuaded some of my friends to do a half marathon and then go to the pub for my birthday. The half marathon turned out to be a bit too short to claim a PB [...]

"How often do you run?" It's a question my runners ask me a lot. Right now I run a lot more frequently than I ever have. Funny how training for an ultra marathon will do that for you. I'm pretty much recovered from Country to Capital and back up to running five times a week. So [...]

My friends Rick and George have made a great film about 'Marathon Man’ Rob Young.  Here they write about how their film captures a snapshot of his epic journey – one that, in many ways, isn’t about running at all. [LINK TO FILM.] “That isn’t possible.” That’s what I thought when I first heard about Rob [...]

I love writing training plans. Whether it's for me or for someone else, taking a fresh sheet of paper, a calendar and some coloured pens and writing and scribbling until it all makes sense pleases me. I love putting in the training for a goal race, ticking off the sessions I've planned and seeing the [...]

Guest post by Phil, who has previously written about radio runner and the Hurden 18. I don’t really care about my appearance. As long as I am regarded as super hot by the leading actresses and models of the day, I am quite relaxed about my ear hair. So, I am not exactly a boxfresh type [...]