Are you suffering from trouble sleeping, phantom leg pains and reoccurring dreams? Then you too may be suffering from taper madness. Don't worry though, it's 100% curable with just one dose of running a marathon. I'm booked in for treatment on Sunday and I'm told it will take about 4 hours.It can't come soon enough. [...]
Do you like your body? If we are to believe what women's magazines tell us, most of you are thinking no right now. I bloody love mine and for someone whose body caused her to be picked on at school for being spotty, ginger and being too skinny, I think that's quite an achievement. Especially as I [...]
I've made a sacrifice to the marathon gods: for the past 11 days I have drunk no alcohol. This could have been a challenge, but luckily I have supportive friends and colleagues who, when we went to the pub on Friday night, spent the whole five hours I was there offering me shots, pints of [...]
Unless you're one of those annoying people who could run pretty much as soon as they could walk and that always looked forward to the annual school sports day with the excitement that most of us save for Christmas or a pint at the end of a long week, everyone sucks at running when they [...]
If you're still in denial of the fact that running does not make you look hot, you might like to take a look at the work of artist Sacha Goldberger. He photographed runners to prove just this point (maybe that wasn't his intention but that's what I'm taking from it). He and his team set up an outdoor studio [...]
On day three of my taper I woke up very tired; ducked out of a 3-mile race I'd challenged three much faster, non-tapering colleagues to; and then I did this...Edinburgh marathon 2012, see you Jimmy! London marathon is clearly going to reject me again in October and after Nottingham I'm not going to fancy entering [...]
Despite the best efforts of a tree root in tripping me up and a bus driver in trying to run me over, I made it round my final 20-mile run on Sunday. Now mileage starts to wind down as I slide down the slipppery slope of the tapering with nothing but a tea-tray that is my [...]
No attempt to look at the learnings offered to us runners by American sitcoms of the past couple of decades could or should overlook '30 Rock'. Yeah you've got a lot of race medals, but do you have any Emmys? Didn't think so. Tina Fey does, and so does Liz Lemon.And so we turn our [...]
I promise this is relevant. Let's be honest: your friends and family probably don't give a crap about your running. They might have done a while ago, but now they mostly tune out when out talk about it and wonder what they're going to have for their lunch. But don't blame them for this, [...]
Have you run a marathon? Yes? Well score one to you, score zero to Dr Frasier Crane. Frasier, like many people, wanted to run a marathon but he never got round to it. Remember the hilarity that resulted from the hospital mixing him up with another patient who then died? The newspapers and TV stations ran [...]