Jul
06
Day 290 today, another 75 days to go to complete the task and I have absolutely no idea how I managed to go out and do a 5 miler. I’m incredibly busy at the moment, a fact made worse by a last minute commission to do a story for The Times that needed turning around [...]
Jul
04
Another day on the personal training course today and another early morning run… Running at just after six am on a Sunday morning is even worse than running at just after six am on a Saturday morning! Anyway, I was pretty shattered when I woke up: a week of increasing my mileage to five miles [...]
Jul
03
Twenty three minutes past 6am is far too early to be out running on a Saturday morning when I should be in bed, but that’s what happened this morning as I had the first practical day on my personal trainer course. When I first woke up, around 4am (yes, thanks again Mini for miaowing louder [...]
Jul
02
God, I am absolutely battered today. A combination of our loud cat Mini screaming at 4am (she wants attention as soon as it’s light) and a little stress before my first PT exam this morning had me not getting back to sleep. Did I use the time wisely? Well I answered some emails and did [...]
May
18
Ash cloud permitting, I’m jetting off to Orlando this morning on a press trip to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Virgin Holidays – Sir Richard Branson is also going to be on the plane and so I’m hoping to get his thoughts on running given they’ve started sponsoring the London Marathon and he ran it [...]
Apr
23
I’ve been so pre-occupied with the Brighton Marathon over the last week that the seven month anniversary of the three mile a day challenge totally passed me by! (It was on Tuesday) I’ve been shifting at The Express today with a bit of a late finish so it’s too late now but I’ll do a [...]
Apr
21
Three days since the Brighton Marathon and I thought I’d got away with the pain issue – at least until about 3am this morning I did. In the two days since the race, I’ve been out, ran both days to keep up my three-mile-a-day streak, had a sports massage, done lots of stretching and icing [...]
Apr
20
I’ve finally sorted out some of the confusion over my time for the Brighton Marathon. Apparently my chip malfunctioned, I was one of 15 from 8000 whose chip didn’t work. So my time sent by them, which was adjusted to 3 hours 53 minutes, is the time it took me to finish from when the [...]
Apr
19
I’ve now added pictures to the post on the Brighton Marathon, click here to see them So after a fairly good night’s sleep I woke up this morning a little stiff but in better shape than I expected. Interestingly, the stiffness is more muscle soreness than shin splints so I’m hoping I have broken the [...]
Apr
18
We went down to Brighton on Saturday for the marathon, checking into the Premier Inn for the night and then going to our pals, Jo and Omar’s for dinner. Omar was also running the race, so Jo had done a huge pasta dish for the pair of us and Laura and I made sure to [...]
