Six months until London 2012

I may be a gazillion miles away today, but I'm thinking of London. In six months time on 27 July 2012, the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games will be held. It feels like only yesterday I was (sort of) running the Olympic marathon myself. Did you know that there's certain elements that [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:19+01:0023 January 2012|

2012 Olympic marathon route in pictures

In exactly one year's time the women's marathon of the 2012 Olympic games will be underway right here in London. In celebration of this fact, last night I ran one lap of the 8 mile loops that the women's and men's marathon compertitors will do three times on the official course. And for your viewing [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:30+01:005 August 2011|

Playfair campaign needs your support

We interupt your scheduled reading about my blisters and sore back to bring you this announcement about Playfair. As you know, I'm very excited about the Olympics coming to London - but let's make sure everyone is excited about the Olympics...Exploitation and denial of basic workers’ rights are rife in the sportswear, garment and merchandise [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:32+01:005 April 2011|

2012 London Olympics

I don't know about you but I'm already far too excited about the 2012 Olympics coming to London. Last night I watched 'Cool Runnings' for about the tenth time which further stoked the flames of my Olympic fever. I'm tempted to go as far as to buy a diary ridiculously early so that I can write down two very [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:34+01:0021 February 2011|
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