Sep
27
So after a week off, bar the handover run on Tuesday, it was time to get back on the bike, so to speak yesterday. The Athens Marathon is approaching at the end of October, as is the Royal Parks half marathon in the middle of the month and it’s been a while since I’ve done [...]
Sep
19
So that’s it. I’m done, free, time to take a rest…. the 365th day of running is in the bag and, to be honest, now it’s done I have no idea how I feel about it – so the wrapping up post will come in the next day or so, after I hand over to [...]
Aug
29
Back to a long run in the run up to the Athens Marathon today and, given I’ve got to do a load of studying for my course, I can’t really stay around too long to talk about it. To avoid last week’s long-run malaise where I ran out of gas, I made sure I had [...]
Aug
15
Thirty-five days of running left to go and it’s time to up the training for my piece de resistance, the Athens Marathon. According to my program, today’s long run should have been a 12 miler, so I roughly mapped out just over 12 miles using the walkjogrun.net site and set off, bright and early just [...]
Aug
04
Earlier this year in the run up to the Brighton Marathon, training for such a big race and doing three miles a day, saw my body starting to react in the worst way to increased mileage with a severe dose of shin splints. Now, one day into training for the Athens Marathon and with my [...]
Aug
03
A fitful night’s sleep last night… I was up at one, three and five worrying about the twins, running, work… the whole shebang and then realised that while I’m getting closer to my goal of running every day for a year, I have totally neglected that six weeks after I finish, I am running the [...]
Mar
26
Please donate to my chosen charities by clicking here I swear there was a time, maybe ten or 15 years ago, where doing any kind of exercise, never mind a big challenge was kind of frowned upon. It seems like it used to be that instead of counting the miles you ran, the number of [...]
Mar
25
Please donate to my chosen charities by clicking here I won’t harp on about this every post otherwise the blog will become more about fundraising than about the challenge… but I’m overwhelmed that, with Gift Aid, I’ve already raised more than £700. Thanks so much to all that have donated and to all those that [...]
