Jul
20
So with the 1095 miles done and with some 60 odd more days left, I’ve decided to up the challenge and try and cover 1,500 miles for the 365 days of running. As such, I sent an email out yesterday to try and raise some more cash for charity… which read like this: It seems [...]
Jul
19
There’s a race coming up in two Saturday’s time that I would have loved to take part in: the Adidas TR24. It’s a 24 hour cross country race for teams of up to eight over a 10km course. Basically, you always have to have one of your team running the course over the 24 hours. [...]
Jul
18
We had to be up early this morning to get an early start on driving back to London and so I was out at just after 6am… gorgeous weather for a run, not too hot, not too cold and I took to the bridle paths around Eric’s house with relish… At one point, I came [...]
Jul
16
So today was day 300, just 65 to go and by coincidence, I also chalked up mile 1,200 of running. I’m also now averaging more than 4 miles a day and think it may be feasible with one final push to actually clock up 1,500 miles in the year. To do so, I will have [...]
Jul
14
We were supposed to be on holiday in Greece this week but given the twins are sharing a placenta, Laura is being scanned every two weeks and we were advised to stay as close to decent health care as possible, ruling out a trip to the Greek islands. Instead, we have come up to Yorkshire [...]
Jul
13
My friend David commented on yesterday’s post that things have been getting dark and he’s right, they have recently as running for almost 300 days is starting to take its toll. Today though I got up with a positive attitude. When Laura and I were out the other day, I spotted a snickett I’d not [...]
Jul
08
So I actually passed 1150 yesterday with a 4.2miler but really didn’t have time to put anything on the blog about it so I’ve just updated the figures for yesterday and left it at that. I’ve been feeling a little sluggish since I upped the mileage to five miles a day over the last two [...]
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
05
I’d love today’s run to have been half as exciting as yesterdays but sadly, there were no young lads beating the shit out of themselves today. I did allow myself a bit of a lie in though – ha – starting my first run of the week, a 5 miler, at 7am. It was hot [...]
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 [...]
