1095miles – running blog

After yesterday’s horror of a run, I wasn’t too sure if was up to a long one this evening. Target was 11 miles or more. Ideally 13 if I felt ok, but I accepted that I’d have to run them slowly to protect the legs a bit. They have been sore all day and particularly [...]

I had in mind to run around 4 or 5 miles today. The legs had other ideas. The first quarter mile felt really good. Seven minute miles now seem to suit me quite well and I figured the body was good for it. A half a mile in, it was feeling somewhat weary. By a [...]

I’d like to start by saying thanks to Dave, Paddy and Bill for devising a route for a 20 miler and running it this morning. Without you guys to try and keep up with I’d have quit some considerable miles earlier! I’m glad I joined a club finally and in particular the Blackwater Valley Runners [...]

At 9am the weather forecast showed a large blue mass crossing over the SW London area around 2pm today. This doesn’t bode well. Breakfast, bumble about the house for a while, grab the running gear and get ready to go. Damian arrives strangely around 7 minutes before the absolute latest arrival time I told him [...]

With a mere 11 days until my 365th day, it seems only right to reveal what happens next…I’m quite excited by it all! The following list of people; Neil, Helen, Jamie and Irene have all volunteered to take on the 1095 miles challenge! I’m going to leave it to each of them individually to introduce [...]

…especially when it hurts! I’m making it difficult again today. It’s a rest day. So I ran 5, including a couple of fast half miles. I was explaining to Ed last night at the club run that I’m going to finish on about 1,650 miles. I’d rather end on a big number like 1700. In [...]

I arrived at the club flustered, annoyed and having forgotten several things. I’m a ‘routine’ runner. What I mean is I’m a creature of habit, I need to go through a series of pre-run stages (rituals, some may say!) before I’m comfortable and ready to run. One of them is putting my running cap on. [...]

It’s a Tuesday and we’re in Westminster tonight. I arrived at Waterloo this morning to find it hammering down with rain. It’s been raining heavily all day. David and I dodged the rain showers to manage 5 miles around Westminster/Lambeth Bridge/Battersea. I received the following email from Michelle last night, in response to mine suggesting [...]

Well, fifteen days left. But we’re working on the 1095miles team. Give us some time, we may have a surprise for you That means tomorrow the blog will suddenly be three daily bloggers/runners strong. I would like to wholeheartedly welcome, and wish the best of luck, to Michelle and David on their fourteen days of [...]

A Gold for Mo Farah. Well done Mo. I was all for an early run today until I realised the 5000m was on at 11:30 ish. I had to wait. For a short while I though Mo was out of sorts, he seemed to spend the first couple of laps at the very back of [...]