I've seen a lot of sights on various London busses over the past few years - and many that aren't in any guide books. From people cutting their finger nails to flicking the dandruff out of their hair or getting rather too passionate and even producing a gun - all sorts of unplesantness takes place [...]
As you may have read, I was feeling as though my training was a bit flat recently and I didn't think I was challenging myself as I was being cautious not to run too much before half marathon training starts. However, I've joined a new 'running community' website which has some clever tools that record [...]
I'm a planner - I always have been. I actually enjoy planning - especially planning holidays. For me a holiday starts the day that I pick up a new notebook and start looking up flights on the internet. So it's no surprise that having a training plan for my half marathon is going to be [...]
There's something going on with my bottom half. Having been taunted with the jibe 'sparrow legs' for my of my school life, I've come to accept that my legs have an uncanny resemblance to two matchsticks and that I'll never find a nice pair of knee-high boots that don't look like I'm wearing wellies.For the [...]
While I'm please with my current situation, running three times a week clocking up between 10 and 12 miles per week, I feel a little as though I'm not getting anywhere. I'm not pushing myself and am therefore not breaking we ground. For example my longest run so far is the 6.2 miles that I [...]
Since taking delivery of my new training partner the Garmin Forerunner 405 I've only managed two runs because of work taking me all over the country last week. However, so far the verdict is that I like it.I'm not great at gadgetty things - I have no patience when it comes to reading instructions and [...]
I really should wait to post this until I've got something more substantial to say, but my excitement is such that I'm blurting it out now... I've just taken delivery of a Garmin Forerunner.I'll be getting to know it this weekend and will report back on whether it's as good as I hope it is.
I've downloaded myself a half-marathon training plan in preparation for starting training for the Great Eastern Run in October. The world of training plans is vast and quite overwhelming - should I choose one based on how fast I want to complete the race, or one designed for a beginner, or more of an intermediate?I [...]
So, after a day of website problems I'm finally entered in the ballot for the 2010 London Marathon, along with 119,000 other hopefuls who all want to get their hands on one of the 30-odd thousand ballot places.My rough maths tells me that I've got about a 1 in 4 chance of getting a place [...]
Yesterday was London Marathon day so I jumped out of bed early (and hungover) to watch all the action on the tellybox. During the half hour or so of build-up the BBC showed before any actual running got underway I found myself getting quite emotional at people's stories about why they were running.Once the women's race got [...]