Commuter running is something that, until last week, I'd have defined as running for the bus/train to work. But on Wednesday I became part of the club made up of people that run home from work.It's 10 miles between swiping my ID card to get out of my office and putting the key in my [...]
In the battle of running Vs social life, sometimes something has to give. This week the sacrifice was neither by neither parties, instead my beauty sleep took one for the team. This morning the alarm went off at 6.30 and I pulled myself out of bed, put on my running shoes and before my brain [...]
"Pop onto the scales", said the nurse. And that's when it happened. The pointer didn't stop where should have, where it has remained rigid for the past eight years of my life - it carried on going. It carried on past the number that I've been comfortable with for all of my adult life."Looks like [...]
Last night I went for my first ever sports massage and I was a little nervous about the experience. Not the taking-clothes-off-in-front-of-a-stranger part of it, that didn't bother me. What did bother me was the possibility of adding another person to the list of people that I pay to tell me off. So far my [...]
Week two ended with a 6-mile run that took me through Wimbledon Common, through Richmond Park and finished in Kingston where I rewarded myself with a huge breakfast. Although I'd set off at 11.30am the sun was also late making an appearance on Saturday so I was able to get my run in before it [...]
There were three good reasons why I shouldn't have run on Wednesday night.1) It was about a million degrees in Wimbledon - well maybe about 28C by the time I got home2) I'd woken up in the middle of the night with cramp in my right calf and it was still really sore3) It was [...]
I've said it before and I'll say it again - there's no such thing as an easy run. Yes, I was running slower than usual last night and yes, I was running a shorter distance than usual (2 miles) but it's still running... and running isn't easy.The 'easy run' also known as a 'recovery run' [...]
The first week of training is now complete (hooray) and the schedule has me repeating the same mileage for Week 2 (2 miles, 5 miles and 6 miles). That should be pretty straight forward right? Wrong. There are two hurdles to tackle this week.Firstly, the 5 miles that was a 'Tempo Run' last week, for [...]
Yesterday saw the second run of my training schedule and the plan stuck to my kitchen cupboard called for a 'Tempo Run' of 5 miles.A tempo run you say. Do I require music for this? Should I be trying to run at a similar tempo to the tunes blasting out from my iPod? And would [...]
Last night saw the start of my 16-week training plan for the half-marathon. It felt good to finally be on the structured plan that will hopefully take me to the finish line in 277 miles time. That's right... 277.1 miles from the start at my front door yesterday until the finish line in Peterborough in [...]