The people around you may not 'get' the whole running thing. Yeah, you go running, you exercise and are trying to get fitter or thinner - that they understand. But they may not 'get' what running is becoming for you - because there's people who run and then there's runners. The difference isn't anything to [...]
Running kit seems to be upping its game of late. Now that manufacturers have nailed the wicking fabrics so we no longer have to run while carrying a couple of pints of our own sweat in our t-shirts, they've decided to turn their attention to making it look nice.Lots of boutique sports brands aimed at [...]
I like beer and I like running. So when, on Friday night, I was deliberating over which ale I'd be sampling, there really was only one contender - Truman's Runner.Truman's is an East London brewery - so I was a little disappointed on learning that the beer wasn't named in honour of this runner moving [...]
When people hear that I'm running two marathons in the space of six weeks their first response is 'Wow' or 'Rather you than me'. This came about rather by accident than overly confident planning, but now that I'm in the process of training for it I'm less impressed with myself than I was.Training for a [...]
If you've never seen this film of Heather Dorniden's indoor track race, it's well worth a watch. If you're short of time skip forward to just before one minute in.
All the cheering and people taking photos of you may make you feel like a celebrity while you're running a marathon - but how do you shape up about these famous and famous-ish people?Katie PriceFamous for: taking her clothes off for money.7:11 London MarathonCallum Best Famous for: Being the lothario son of footballer George Best.5:30 London [...]
In the grand scheme of annoyances encountered while running, headphone wires aren't comparable with such things as people stepping out in front of you without looking where they're going; or finding the only public toilet in your local park has shut early; or even all those annoying people that finish ahead of you in a [...]
There's a few places in the world synonymous with running: Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, Oregon in the USA, Iten in Kenya and, as it would seem Wapping in London. I've just moved to Wapping and there's a whole lot of runners here. So many in fact that they've prompted this rather funny film.
About five years ago a good friend of mine started running. She began with a couple of laps round the park and gradually built up to a charity 5k event and eventually a 10k. Like most people, she found the early days of running and trying to get fitter pretty tough. What we didn't know [...]
1 You'll run fasterRunning with someone who is faster or a similar speed to you and you'll find yourself picking up the pace. Even the least competitive of people will start to get into race mode and start pushing themselves to go that little bit faster. Last week I went out for a lunchtime run [...]