Sep
13
Up studying late last night, three miles first thing this morning, off to the Bankside gym in Waterloo to do my PT exam… it’s been quite a day. The thing with doing the practical assessment is that you pair up with someone else on the course and then train in each other in a session. [...]
Aug
28
Five days of being tested, prodded, poked, stretched and loaded with weights on the PT course on top of the general travails of running every day for a year and I felt wrecked when I got up this morning. What to do? Crank the miles back up to five for today before hitting tomorrow’s big [...]
Aug
24
Yesterday’s stop-start running shenanigans where I started three separate runs in a short space of time have left me feeling pretty sore. There’s a whole lot of chafing going on, while by warming up and cooling down, I’ve also a bit of a sniffle… When the cat alarm (thanks Mini) went off this morning at [...]
Aug
21
This morning I didn’t feel like running. As part of the house refurb as we await the twins, I did some re-wiring of telephone cable in the week and managed to lose internet access for about 12 hours. I got it back on yesterday but couldn’t get the Sky TV on as well – for [...]
Aug
09
A particularly bad run this morning where for the first time ever, the First Rule of Running Club failed. For those of you who have missed any related posts, the First Rule of Running Club was devised by my pal David. The First Rule of Running Club dictates that you must got for a number [...]
Aug
07
Despite having spent the week moaning about feeling tired and the number of niggles I’m getting, I actually woke up this morning feeling full of beans. It could have had something to do with the fact that I woke up and, instead of going straight out, waited a while until I woke up, had a [...]
Aug
06
I’m battered today… up early, doing some work, off for a run and then into The Express where it was press day and I didn’t get out until past 7pm… For some reason, on the Tube into work, I started sneezing… no rhyme nor reason, but I could not stop. And I still haven’t stopped [...]
Jul
24
So I was up early this morning for a quick five miler as I had to be Bankside gym behind the Tate Gallery where I was being assessed for the first stage of my Personal Trainer Diploma, the Certificate in Gym Instructing. Fitness training in the UK is monitored by the Register of Exercise Professionals [...]
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 [...]
