Mar
29
The fourth anniversary of my dad’s passing today saw me complete 750 miles. This one’s for you Big Mel… Click here for a Google Map and full details of the day’s run Miles today: 3 Target: 573 Miles to date: 750.07 Please donate to my chosen charities by clicking here
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 [...]
Mar
24
I’m still sore and still haven’t taken any ibuprofen for three days and so this morning’s run saw me take a go-slow around Tooting Common. I’ve also signed up to go and visit the sports injury clinic at Crystal Palace next week to see if they can do anything to get rid of the tightness [...]
Mar
23
So the results are in for Sunday’s Water of Life Half Marathon in Marlow and I actually finished in 173rd place out of nearly 500 runners… not a bad effort I suppose in only my second ever race but I still feel a bit disappointed about it. That disappointment had nothing on the pain in [...]
Mar
17
I was up early this morning and was on the streets at 6am, partly because one of the cats woke me up and I couldn’t get back to sleep but also as I had a shift at a private jet company working on some of their publications. Usually, I’m a bit slack running at that [...]
Mar
14
A long run today and I again used walkjogrun.net to plan my route. I’ve been waiting quite a while to try and follow the greatest part of the Wandle Trail, which follows the path of the River Wandle from Waddon Ponds in Croydon to where the river dumps into the Thames at Wandsworth, and this [...]
Mar
12
Not much to report today really… At around 10 this morning I went to my local gym, the Virgin Active in Streatham and had a sports massage with Lillian before a rather boring treadmill run followed by a weights sessions. The legs are feeling less tight than at any time over the last two weeks… [...]
Mar
08
… comes when you really don’t feel like it. I mean really don’t feel like it. I’m not moaning about injuries or niggles again, I mean really just pure-can’t-be-arsedness. I was doing some media training today so had to be in Central London by 7.30am which meant either running this morning at about 5am or [...]
Mar
03
Another day waking up to a sharp ache in my left calf this morning. It’s right at the bottom where the muscle joins the bone, an inch or so above the ankle. It’s not unbearable, but it’s noticeable when I walk, despite the sterling efforts of the sports masseuse Lillian yesterday. I was reading an [...]
Mar
02
For Lillian, the sports masseuse I woke up this morning with the calf still sore and was just about to go out for a slow one when an email popped into my box: ‘You sound sore, fancy some company?’ It was my pal, Ben Maher, who is training for the London Marathon and was working [...]
