This morning I read an interview with British ultra-marathon runner Jez Bragg. Jez is the first Englishman to win the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc so he knows a thing or two about running really, really long distances.As I've said before, I'm aiming to run an ultra in the next couple of years - probably [...]
Yesterday I took my weary legs to Floatworks for an hour-long session in a floatation tank. Apparently floating in an isolation tank on very salty water can actually speed up recovery for athletes – and as I’m now regarding myself as one of those creatures I thought I’d see if this was true.Apparently "Rate of [...]
I love it when a plan comes together. After last year's Great Eastern Run when I missed out on a 2-hour time by four minutes, I was back in Peterborough on Sunday determined to crack the magic number. With more miles under my belt courtesy of marathon training early in the year and more experience [...]
The route for the London 2012 marathon has been revealed and there's been a lot of anger in the press that the route will not take in parts of East London as originally planned. Instead the route will involve three 8-mile laps of the tourist hotspots of central London.The new route will start in The [...]
Running would be much harder to fit into my average working week without my running backpack, and marathon training would have been almost impossible. When the nights are longer and you don't want to have to wear a headlamp for your evening run, and your run is too long to realistically fit into a lunch [...]
Last night I put my injured leg up and watched the TV and it wasn't long before I was flicking from what I thought I should be watching (BBC4) to what I wanted to watch but wasn't proud about. 'Are you fitter than a pensioner?' on BBC3 sees four unhealthy Brits in their late teens [...]
RICE, it feeds the world and also helps prevent injury. We are of course talking about two different types of rice - but this is something that I didn't catch onto straight away when people told me that you need to RICE tweaked muscles. So for those of you wondering 'What is RICE?', I shall [...]
It's recommended that you change your running shoes every 500 miles. I've pushed my luck through more than 600 miles and a marathon in my Brooks Adrenaline GTS 9s, so when I was in Seattle recently and saw the GTS 10s costing significantly less than they do in the UK, it was just the hint [...]
In just over a week, I'll find out whether I've got a place in the London Marathon. It's a long wait: from applying to getting in and then to lacing up your shoes at the start line takes a year in total. For many new runners unaware of the timing and hoop jumping that goes into getting a [...]
A few weeks ago I tweeted that I was a huge fan of the new cycle superhighways that we have in London but maybe Boris should consider implementing running superhighways. Many a true word is tweeted in jest and I'm beginning to think my idea is more than necessary.I'm a one world without borders kind of [...]