All the cheering and people taking photos of you may make you feel like a celebrity while you're running a marathon - but how do you shape up about these famous and famous-ish people?Katie PriceFamous for: taking her clothes off for money.7:11 London MarathonCallum Best Famous for: Being the lothario son of footballer George Best.5:30 London [...]
Coming away from the Great Eastern Run at the weekend without a PB (unless I resort to claiming it as a half-marathon with a cold PB) means I still have two PBs to find and less than two weeks to find them if I'm to bag myself an awesome this autumn.So race listings have been [...]
There's no collective noun for getting three PBs in a six week period. I've checked and it doesn't exist. If I were a footballer I might say things like "I'm going to score a hat trick this weekend" which you'd rightly interpret as meaning "I'm going to score three goals in one match" or the more [...]
This week I announced my intention to knock 31 minutes off my marathon PB this year. Ambitious? Yes. Achievable? I think so. I'm thinking positive but staying realistic and I believe I can do it. But I've also been thinking about quite how long 31 minutes is.31 minutes is...longer than my train journey into worklonger than [...]
It's time to look back on 2010 and take stock of what has been achieved. I'm probably a bit late with this - the TV shows that reflect on the best songs or worst films of a year generally air about three months before the conclusion of the year. Call me old fashioned but a [...]
I'd like to patent what I've come to refer to as the 'chicken and egg approach to PBs'. It's worked pretty well for me so far in that every race I've done has been an improvement on the last. Allow me to explain this almost meaningless and very tenuous metaphor. In my first ever 10k [...]
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 [...]
Aim for the stars, if you miss you might get the moon. But it doesn't always work like that when it comes to running. My marathon time was 4.31.30 - which I was delighted with because I'd not set myself a target other than to finish with under 5 hours being a bonus. Imagine how [...]
Aim for the stars, if you miss you might get the moon. But it doesn't always work like that when it comes to running. My marathon time was 4.31.30 - which I was delighted with because I'd not set myself a target other than to finish with under 5 hours being a bonus. Imagine how [...]
It's 15 weeks until my half marathon and in the past two weeks I've run less than 15 miles per week - not much to blog home about, I think you'll agree. I've learnt a fair few things about running in the past two years (and a lot since my first half) and I know [...]