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 [...]
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 [...]
This weekend I was flying solo for my long run. I was back home visiting my parents and the schedule called for 16 miles. The change of scenery from my usual Richmond Park route really made a difference and I quite enjoyed plodding along by myself, singing out loud at points hoping nobody would come [...]