Despite the penchant for Lycra and neon colours, and largely using your legs, cycling is nothing like running. I've cycled round London for the best part of six years but recently, since a promise I made to Chrissie Wellington, I've been upping my effort on the bike. If you've been inspired to get on your [...]
Since finishing the Edinburgh Marathon in May, there's no stopping the Goal-den Girls who are out to prove that age is no barrier to taking up running. Group founder, Tricia, explains. I have always run to keep fit, but I had never done a marathon - so in 2010 I decided I would train for [...]
The spectacular opening ceremony on the London 2012 Olympic games was a celebration of all things British. But it left out one very defining British trait: that of knocking down our heroes.Paula Radcliffe is the fastest woman in the world ever over the marathon. She's held the world record for the distance since 2003 and [...]
With the UK getting ready for that big event that's happening in London in a couple of weeks, TV has been taken over by documentaries on sport. So, while sitting on your sofa you can get inspired to go out and train. Here's some of the pics from the last week alone - catch them [...]
Meeting your idols is a risky business, they might turn out not to be everything you've built them up to be. But meeting Chrissie Wellington, four-time Ironman World Champion, was pretty much as awesome as she is badass.I'd gone to meet her at a talk and book signing she was giving at Runners' Need, but [...]
Guest blogger, SportyGirl, reports back on last week's Bushy 10K and her sub-50 mission. Despite having completed my first marathon this year, nothing makes me as uncomfortable as training for a 10k. People think this statement is crazy, however, in the world of 10k racing and respectable completion times, this distance is well outside of [...]
This October will mark the four year anniversary of my first race since school sports day. The Wimbledon 10K 2008 was the start of a long line of running races which has led me to training for my fifth marathon. Before I took on the Wimbledon 10K the furthest I'd run in training was 5 [...]
Session two of trying to learn to swim the Total Immersion way from a book is in the training bank, and in my second session I learned a few things about swimming.1. Nose clips stay on your nose better if you take your make-up off first. However, wearing a nose clip raises people expectation of [...]
£50 is a lot of money to pay for a race, there's no denying that. It's more than most marathons are charging as an entry fee, so when the British 10K London put places on sale for exactly that they had a lot of work to do to make it worth runners parting with their hard-earned [...]
A move from running into triathlons brings with it a whole new world of jargon to get your head round. I may be fluent in marathon speak, but my triathlonish needs some work. On Sunday, though, I learn that instead of saying "went out on the bike for a bit and then ran around the [...]