Let's quote Matt Fitzgerald again: "If it does nothing else, a runner's training must make him feel prepared, because if he feels prepared, he is prepared, and if he doesn't, he isn't." Sound advice.This weekend and next weekend are the last big push of marathon training before the easing back into the leather armchair that is the taper. [...]
If there's an excuse for missing training, I've probably used it. But there's one excuse I won't be using not to run: the riots in London. Because, us Londoners have had to put up with a lot of shit over the years - but we carry on. That's what we're good at. On the morning after [...]
It's a close call between what I like more: running or watching American sitcoms. I'd actually like to live in a perpetual cycle of doing one or the other with the only interupptions to this being the occasional power nap. I'd also need someone to bring me food but I'm pretty confident I could negotiate a [...]
In exactly one year's time the women's marathon of the 2012 Olympic games will be underway right here in London. In celebration of this fact, last night I ran one lap of the 8 mile loops that the women's and men's marathon compertitors will do three times on the official course. And for your viewing [...]
One of the unexpected outcomes of moving 10 minutes from my office is that I've been watching more episodes of Friends recently. Turns out there really isn't anything worth rushing home for TV wise in that 5-6pm slot. And as E4 shows around 5,574 episodes of Friends per week, it really is hard to avoid.I [...]
A pictoral post today, no words necessary really, but if you'd like some - here's a few sung (if not coposed) by the Sugarbabes. But what you've no doubt been waiting for is the picture below. Here's me and MrNiceguy on last nights traditional Red Dress Hash Run. It was really hot last night and [...]
Training plans are rubbish aren't they? It's the way they stare at you making you feel bad, inadequate and underprepared that I hate. It's difficult to argue with them because they don't compromise, however long you stare at the words "8 miles steady" they don't change.I've tried to avoid crosses on my training plan by using arrows, annotations, [...]
Frustrated at my minorly injured leg and worried that sub-4 glory was slipping away, last night I decided to throw the last remaining weapon in my arsenal at said leg. Yes I've had a sports massage, yes I've iced it and RICE'd it and rubbed ibuprofen and foam rollers on it and, while these help [...]
The folks over at Run Dem Crew, who I've yet to make it out with on a Tuesday night yet (I will soon, promise), posted this creative task that they've set their 'youngsters'. It invites you to write your own running manifesto by finishing a few sentences. Here's mine:Running is…a privilege.Running is not…a chore.I run…away from [...]
For most runners, hitting the treadmill very definitely falls into the category of 'Plan C'. When it comes to running, we'd all much rather the picture we have in our heads of running along an amazing stretch of coastline, along a mountain trail or through the countryside: that is Plan A. But as we live [...]