Bikes are great aren't they? You don't need a ticket or to wait for one that's going in your direction to come along, you just jump on one, pedal like mad and, as if by magic, you arrive at your destination. They're blooming marvelous - that is until they go wrong.It was going to happen [...]
As the countdown to to Manchester Marathon begins, I've roped in a couple of other runners who are doing the race to share the ups and downs of their training. First up is first-time marathoner Helen.Personally, I blame Peter Duncan. Back in 1981, I watched the first ever London Marathon solely because Blue Peter presenter [...]
CreditConfession: until yesterday I had only done one track session and that was more than two years ago. It left me with such bad DOMS that I've been put off ever since. That's not to say that my training has been devoid of intervals. I just haven't done them at the running track.But I now [...]
The other year this blog was shortlisted for Cosmopolitan magazine's blog awards. I went to the awards party in a bar in Soho, drank a lot of cocktails (Cosmopolitans obviously) and didn't win. I then went home with a goodie bag full of cosmetics and, finding I was out of my usual, I washed my [...]
Running and, more recently, swimming have shown me time and again that things I thought I couldn't do are actually within reach. Running a marathon was something I though was impossible for me. Now I've run five. I couldn't swim more than a couple of lengths. Yesterday I swam for half an hour. And the [...]
There's a pothole on my cycle home that's trying to kill me. Every evening, just after I've passed King's Cross and breathed a sigh of relief that the madness of central London traffic is behind me, there it is. It waits until I'm on a nice long descent, picking up speed for the upcoming ascent [...]
adidas hadn't exactly been shy about how good they think this product is. For weeks they'd told us to expect a shoe that would 'revolutionise running'. That's some big talk right there. Then at the product launch they wheeled out two very big guns who know a thing or two about running. Yohan Blake and [...]
Next week, Nike are inviting runners down to Somerset House in London to try out their new Flyknit trainers which they promise will fit your feet perfectly.Nike say: "The unique Nike Flyknit Experience will be housed in the iconic courtyard of Somerset House, where visitors can trial the very latest Nike running shoe, the Flyknit [...]
Balancing training and a social life is something I've never got quite right. I've either cut myself off and become a social recluse while I clock up the last months of marathon training, over indulged on a Friday night and barely recovered by the time the long run beckoned on Sunday morning or multi-tasked by running [...]
Marathon training is hard. This is something I realise as soon as I start training for one of these things and then immediately forget as soon as I cross the finish line.On Saturday I spent the morning giving a talk to a group of 60 runners taking on the London Marathon for Breast Cancer Care and the [...]