Apr
08
The doc says sprained shoulder, limited range of movement. Great. They’ve given me crazy strong anti-inflammatory pills. Fingers crossed by Sunday they’re doing a good job. Today they’re not. Pain started within a few yards and although it’s not as insanely bad as yesterday (though not far off), it’s a significant distraction from running. And [...]
Feb
17
Congrats Andy on passing 500 miles and on his 150th day of running today… stellar effort and I thought you’d never keep it up! So what have I been doing in the meantime? Well… looking after the twins and trying to work a couple of days a week from Chester mainly, which is why I’ve [...]
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
16
This week, my trusty Garmin is in for repair and so I ran Garminless. Stripped of the technology, I was left feeling naked! Ankle 1: After his bike incident on Friday, Damian and I spoke this evening and he’s officially out of the running as it were for Sunday’s Great North Run, due to ankle [...]
Sep
16
Sorry for not writing more yesterday but I’ve had a pretty full on week what with trying to finish off a host of freelance writing projects, having the house in a tip from the builders and painters who’ve been trouncing in and out and also trying to get another, rather large, section of my personal [...]
Sep
14
In bed early this morning, I was thinking to myself: only do three miles today and I’ll be hanging for 24 hours on 1,499 miles, so I thought “sod it” let’s go the extra mile – ha, ha. There was a slight problem with this though when I got out of bed, every bit of [...]
Sep
02
So I was still hurting today when I went out this morning, even having one of those days where I was up early (5am) and kept putting off going out til much later. Just 16 more days to grit my teeth through! While I’m enjoying the new site and Im excited about Andy taking it [...]
Aug
31
I managed to get myself in a right old tizz this morning. Late last night, I started testing migrating the blog from being hosted by wordpress.com to wordpress.org. While most people will now be going ‘huh?’ it’s quite a big change. WordPress.com allows you to host blogs on their servers but in exchange for the [...]
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
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 [...]
