Struggling to motivate yourself to run today, here's five very good reasons why you should stop fighting it and go for a run. ONEYou won't have to run tomorrow. Think how pleased with you your future self will be. Don't you want to be that person tomorrow who gets to sit down knowing they banked [...]
Unless you're one of those annoying people who could run pretty much as soon as they could walk and that always looked forward to the annual school sports day with the excitement that most of us save for Christmas or a pint at the end of a long week, everyone sucks at running when they [...]
If you're still in denial of the fact that running does not make you look hot, you might like to take a look at the work of artist Sacha Goldberger. He photographed runners to prove just this point (maybe that wasn't his intention but that's what I'm taking from it). He and his team set up an outdoor studio [...]
No attempt to look at the learnings offered to us runners by American sitcoms of the past couple of decades could or should overlook '30 Rock'. Yeah you've got a lot of race medals, but do you have any Emmys? Didn't think so. Tina Fey does, and so does Liz Lemon.And so we turn our [...]
If there's an excuse for missing training, I've probably used it. But there's one excuse I won't be using not to run: the riots in London. Because, us Londoners have had to put up with a lot of shit over the years - but we carry on. That's what we're good at. On the morning after [...]
There's many lessons to be taken from running that can be applied to various aspects of your life. Overcoming adversity, pushing through when things get tough and all that karmic stuff that might, one day, make me a better person. But that's not what this post is about. Thanks to lessons learnt running, I can [...]
"Would you like to take part in a 6km race for charity?" It was an innocent enough question that the woman outside the Tate Modern asked me this lunchtime but one that demanded a more complex answer than simply yes or no. She'd already foiled my plan to avoiding her talking to me by pretending to [...]
Today I had a day off and the sun was shining so I decided to go for a run at a fairly slow pace, take my time and explore. As Blogger Stats tells me that a lot of my readers live outside the UK, I thought I'd take some pictures along the way so you [...]
The other day a colleague said to me: "I really like the idea of running but I just can't enjoy it". My response was "do you eat olives?"To me running is a bit like eating olives. When you first try them as a child or in your late teens they are vile. To me they [...]
I'm not usually one to leave things to the last minute. If I have a deadline I like to give myself a day's grace by finishing early, I like to be early for trains and planes )on Christmas Eve I was actually an hour early for my train), and I posted my Christmas cards as [...]