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
09
I write from my hidey hole in the back room of the flat. Nursing two achey knees. The pre-1095miles anxiety has well and truly set in. And I’m concerned. No, scared. What seemed like a good idea some weeks ago is finally, and at great speed, approaching reality! I spoke to a lovely guy called [...]
Sep
01
First of all, apologies to anyone trying to read today who could not get onboard – but we’ve been migrating the site to the new, fresher design that can do some cooler stuff like actually displaying the Garmin/Google maps on each post so you don’t have to click through if you just want an overview [...]
Aug
25
I was very silly last night. It was Stephanie Boyle, PR manager at Visit Britain’s leaving do and I’d said I’d pop in for a couple after my course as I had to be up early to go again. Best laid plans and all that… I ended up leaving at 11pm, a mixture of red [...]
Aug
23
… but it didn’t Today was meant to be a nice easy run – just a three miler after yesterday’s 14 miler and associated fuel tank problem. The idea, as I was on the PT course in Southwark was to knock off there at 5pm and head to Hyde Park for a 6pm meet and [...]
Aug
22
As part of my training for the Athens Marathon, I had to do a 14 miler today… No problem I thought, after doing just over a half marathon last week. With more DIY and some paid-for writing work to complete, I decided to set off early and was out of the house for 7.30am, fuelling [...]
Mar
26
Please donate to my chosen charities by clicking here I swear there was a time, maybe ten or 15 years ago, where doing any kind of exercise, never mind a big challenge was kind of frowned upon. It seems like it used to be that instead of counting the miles you ran, the number of [...]
Mar
07
Well that was interesting… a supposed 17mile run that ended up being 18.5 thanks to my map reading going out the window somewhere around Wimbledon Common, a relatively stiff and not a little painful first three miles, a great middle section around the Common and a last couple of miles where I stumbled from step [...]
Feb
25
Still a little tight today so another fairly easy run that I actually split in two. I’d not made it the gym at all this week so decided to run there and back, happily, in another case of running serendipity, it’s about 1.47 miles to the gym… Click here for a Google Map and full [...]
