If you’re an iPhone user, you probably have three main concerns that occupy your mind: having your phone stolen, dropping your phone and your phone running out of battery. Depending on where you live, strapping your iPhone to your arm in a highly-visible-to-thieves fashion as you head out for a run may not be the [...]
I can barely contain my excitement about next week’s show long enough to discuss last night’s, but here goes. From the off we were teased with new footage in the opening titles. As well as contestants that we’ve loved and lost (remember Big G? I wonder if he’s still Big G or maybe now he’s [...]
This weekend I've been reading a lot about Stefaan Engels. If you haven't heard of him, I'm sure he'll be in every running-related magazine soon as he's just run 365 marathons over 365 consecutive days. That's 9,569 miles - or around twice the length of Africa. Imagine being on the tip of South Africa and [...]
Have you ever caught the reflection of yourself running in a shop window and thought that you look like you have all your joints the wrong way round? I have. In my mind I glide along the ground effortlessly like a Tarahumara, but when I see a reflection of myself I'm reminded that this isn't [...]
Bum on seat, cup of tea in hand an off we went for week four. Angie promised us in the opening few minutes that 'this is where the game begins'. Whose game - competition between the contestants, rivalry between Richard and Angie or manipulative tricks of the production crew - she was referring to we [...]
Congratulations to everyone who took part in Janathon 2011 - the inaugral Janathon event. My stats aren't as bad as I'd feared. I ran and blogged 21 out of 31 days. I did my core exercises most of the other days and am well on my way to developing a two-pack. A two-pack of what [...]
I often see the same people on my morning commute and they stand out to me for various reasons. There's tall engineer man who reads journal articles, there's Sudoku woman who taps away on her Blackberry for 20 minutes every morning and there's sad Salomon woman. I don't mean that she's sad, she looks as [...]
It's always wise to warm-up properly before exercise, and I extend this rule to watching exercise. So before I settled down to watch The Biggest Loser last night, I did some light dynamic stretching with an old episode of Frasier. The episode 'Frasier lite' sees the team at KACL (Frasier's radio station) competing in a [...]
Last week, as I left work I saw something amazing in the sky. It happens every year but never fails to get me all excited. It wasn't the solar eclipse, the alignment of Mars with Venus or a shooting star - it was the gradual lightening of the sky. At 5 o'clock the sky wasn't [...]
Ex-smokers are some of the biggest anti-smokers, and in much the same way, this reformed couch potato steps onto a somewhat giant soapbox when it comes to extolling the virtues of regular exercise. I love running and what it has done for me. I sometimes think that if everyone ran a few miles a few [...]