Many female runners think twice before heading out of the door for a run once the sun has gone down on safety grounds. Luckily attacks on runners aren't all that common, but it's down to each individual to decide where and when they feel safe running. If you do decide to run in the dark, [...]
Sometimes you have to be creative with your time in order to fit your run in. And with Janathon calling for me to run every day in January, I've started multi-tasking in order to find time to run. I've already run part way home from work and run on my lunchbreak - stopping at a [...]
Whatever happened to food mountains? They were all the rage in the 90s but you never hear about them any more. Now a 10 metre tall pile of cheese I could deal with pretty effectively, but the 10 metre tall pile of smelly running kit that's sitting where my washing basket once was it a [...]
The Biggest Loser returns to our screens next Monday and I for one cannot wait! Not least because the lovely Davina McCall will be presenting it. I got into this show quite late last time round because, not having Sky, I hadn't seen the previous series. What I like about it is that is shows [...]
The first week of January and the number of runners I'm seeing on the streets is definitely higher than it was a week ago. That's not just because the roads have shed the layer of ice that they had last week but that New Year's resolutions to get fit have forced people outside. Seeing them [...]
It's time to look back on 2010 and take stock of what has been achieved. I'm probably a bit late with this - the TV shows that reflect on the best songs or worst films of a year generally air about three months before the conclusion of the year. Call me old fashioned but a [...]
Welcome to a new decade and goodbye the last one. For the most part it served us well. A new year and a new decade offers us the opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start again, but that's sometimes a scary prospect. Yesterday I hit my target mileage for the year of 800 miles (to [...]
As Janathon approaches, I've been trying to channel my inner Ron Hill. A few posts back I wrote about Mr Hill and how he has run every day for nearly half a century. He's definately someone who I'll be thinking about as I tackle my 34 days of running every day. If you don't know [...]
I'm not usually one to leave things to the last minute. If I have a deadline I like to give myself a day's grace by finishing early, I like to be early for trains and planes )on Christmas Eve I was actually an hour early for my train), and I posted my Christmas cards as [...]
A story in the news today caught my eye. It had the words 'marathon' and 'drinking' in it which was sure to gain a click from me. It wasn't the exciting breakthrough in the alcoholic sports beverage research I had been hoping for but another almost unnecessary study of runners. You can read the BBC's explanation of the [...]