I've got two spots at the Rock 'n' Roll Edinburgh Half Marathon to give away - that's one for you and one for a friend. If you want one - put your name in the comments or tweet me 'I want to win' and a winner will be chosen at random next week.The Rock ‘n’ Roll [...]
Around mile seven of last weekend's long run two guys crossed the road in front of me and headed towards Finsbury Park. As they crossed one looked at me and then said to the other: "Where do you go for your runs?"It was a simple enough question, but for the remaining miles of my long [...]
By way of a what I like to think was a 'welcome to the neighbourhood' the people at Teva invited me for a run with them on Hampstead Heath to celebrate, not actually my moving in round the corner, but the launch of their new shoe.Teva are an outdoors footwear brand and you're probably more [...]
After a Christmas spent either ill or nursing injuries and hangovers, the start to the latest marathon campaign was off to a rocky start and those lofty goals for 2013 looked under treat before I'd even got out the blocks.But some antibiotics, a lot of stretching and something called 'being sensible' seemed to do the [...]
10 Tips for Beginner Runners Starting running can be intimidating and, well, let's be honest, hard work. But if you persevere it DOES get easier and you WILL start to enjoy it. Here's how... Get a plan You may be just starting out and not considering a specific race yet, but you still need a training [...]
There's a lampost by Blackfriars Bridge that is half a mile, or roughly 800m, from Waterloo Bridge. And there's a stretch of Tuffnell Park Road that provides a good 400m straight between side roads. That's 400m without risk of being run over.I know this because I've measured them online, then gone out with my Garmin [...]
One thing that stood out from London 2012 was quite how many medals Yorkshire athletes collected. The county finished up with seven gold medals, two silver and three bronzes, which would have placed it twelfth in the medal table if regarded as an independent country."There's something in the water" came the headlines. But was there - [...]
The body is an amazing but baffling thing. Millions of years of evolution have given us things like thumbs, essential for opening jars of olives and texting a mate to say you're running late. We can stand up straight and run fast (well some of us can) for a bus. But there's still a few [...]
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 [...]
I dragged myself from an inflatable mattress surrounded by boxes to a local pharmacy in search of some stronger drugs."Have you taken ibuprofen?""Yes.""And paracetamol?""Yes. They're not doing anything. I need something stronger.""You're going to have to see your GP."I'd moved flat, not yet had my bed delivered and had become ill. The only training that I'd done in the [...]
