I'm against picnics. I don't see the point of preparing food and then carting it a few miles to a local park to consume it by which time it will be warm instead of cold or cold instead of hot and taste less good than if you'd stayed at home. I'm against all picnics with [...]
There's no honour in not training for an event. In turning up at the start and saying to anyone and everyone within earshot, whether they want to listen or not, that "I've not done any training." In not respecting the race distance. Loath to become one of those types of people when I line up [...]
Imagine yourself driving to work and there's some idiot driving a meter from your back wheels. They keep trying to overtake you but you know the road is too narrow for them to do this safely. Imagine that, as you drive along, you're somehow invisible to other road users, despite being lit up like a [...]
It was a hot evening in Siem Reap, Cambodia when I first went to a yoga class that I enjoyed. I'd met a girl from Liverpool the day before in the middle of Ankor Wat. That evening we made a pilgrimage to 'Pub Street' where we drank cocktails imaginatively called Toomrader into the next morning. [...]
"No special preparation is needed", those are the words of Don Fink, Ironman triathlon training guru in reference to 100 mile cycle rides. I've taken those words to heart. Perhaps a little too much. In contrast to the Don Fink school of thought, Ride London 100 keeps emailing me to tell me about all the [...]
When I started running five years ago it was hard and definitely wasn't something I'd call fun. But I carried on doing it because there was an image in the back of my mind of me running barefoot down a beach smiling. That was what I wanted.Somewhere along the line, as I trained for my [...]
How I FINALLY got a place in the London Marathon It’s many years since I first began trying to get a spot in the London Marathon. I’d grown up watching the race every year on TV, so now that I was living in London and I was actually a real runner – it seemed ‘sensible’ [...]
There are several benefits to being a slow triathlete. For starters you don't have to worry about storming in and out of transition and getting on your bike the wrong way round. Taking your time to sit down to dry your feet and put your socks on (possibly even having a wee while you're sat [...]
You can avoid looking at a certain page in your diary, avert your eyes away from the calendar every time you go into the kitchen and even flee the country for two weeks, but that race day is still happening. It’s all happening a bit fast. I did a sprint triathlon in May. My first [...]
I asked you to ask me anything and what a polite lot you are, you asked about running… mostly. Here’s your questions and my answers...What training did you use to go sub 4?EMI used a radical approach which saw me going travelling for four months and only lacing up my trainers once a week if [...]