Reflecting on how I managed to achieve a huge one out of five of my goals for 2012 has made planning this year's running targets a little problematic. I don't want to set the bar too low or too high. So with that in mind, here's what 2012 may have in store for me...A sub-4 [...]
Blimey, where did 2011 go? Maybe it's because I ran so fast that it all seems like a blur. As you wash down the last of the turkey and many of you start to think about training plans for a spring marathon, allow me to be a little self-indulgent and reflect of what I've done [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to a new decade and goodbye the last one. For the most part it served us well. A new year and a new decade offers us the opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start again, but that's sometimes a scary prospect. Yesterday I hit my target mileage for the year of 800 miles (to [...]