Forget sweaty summer afternoons or balmy mornings, for me the perfect conditions for running and those winters days like today when the sun is shining but there's still a little chill in the air. Not for me "T-shirt weather", give me "two T-shirts and tights" weather.What days like today have over warm summer evenings is [...]
Thirteen weeks ago I started training for my first marathon. If I had known then that the UK was set to experience the coldest winter in 31 years, I may have reconsidered. But I didn't, so I didn't - and now, with all my long runs complete and just 19 days to go before I'm [...]
England has a reputation for being rainy. One that I had always believed to be true, but running has taught me differently. In the past eight weeks of marathon training I've had to run four days a week and I always run at the same time, thus making it difficult to avoid bad weather, and [...]
Yesterday the gray and miserable weather was not making it easy for me to get excited about the 3 mile run I was supposed to be doing. I sat at my desk toying with the idea of putting it off a day but, as I got to my front door, the clouds that had been [...]