Aug
28
Well done to Mo Farah on his performance in the 10,000m at Deagu, South Korea. I really thought you had it there, but those pesky Ethiopians really can run Silver is a superb achievement, especially for a Brit! Anyway, here’s what Mo had to say after the race: “I saw with 100m to go he [...]
May
27
27 miles already this week and unsurprisingly my legs really ache now. It’s been a big week and so I’m taking a couple of days to relax a bit before Monday’s Bupa 10k. I’m very tempted to do the Frimley Lodge Park Parkrun tomorrow morning at 9am. If you see me there, I gave in! [...]
Apr
10
I left the run until late afternoon. My left ankle is very dodgy, just like a few weeks ago when it went ping so I’ll be very cautious. I cannot walk down stairs with any control or indeed composure! Every muscle in the lower half of my body aches a lot. I still have a [...]
Mar
28
With the clock’s going back we’ve obviously lost an hour’s sleep but I feel as though I’ve gained five… I normally never lie in, a combination of my natural insomnia and being woken every morning by the cats see me normally wide awake at about 5am. Laura intervened today though, getting up before me, taking [...]
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
19
Thanks to Ben Maher for the pics and to Ben and Amanda Ellison of The Third Space for organising. Today I managed to run a mountain or two all from a treadmill in central London. It wasn’t just that the treadmill was set to rolling hills either – thanks to my pal Ben, I got [...]
Mar
04
Four days of taking it really easy, a ton of Ibuprofen, ice packs and an hour’s sports massage and I’m still feeling the wrong side of sore on my left shin. This morning’s run wasn’t that bad but I’ve stiffened right up since so I’ve spent much of the day trying to find things to [...]
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 [...]
Feb
20
Thanks to David Whitely, Steve Swift and Kate Popham for suggesting tracks for my playlist for tomorrow’s Portsmouth Coastal Marathon: Manics, New Order and Eminem all added… If anyone has any more suggestions, please leave a comment below or email me by clicking here. For this morning’s run I did a nice easy amble on London [...]
Feb
19
So as part of my training for the Brighton Marathon I have my first proper race this Sunday, the Portsmouth Coastal Half Marathon raising money for the RNLI. For 13.2miles or around 2-2.5 hours, I’m going to need some inspiration for my iPod playlist, so please, if you have a great suggestion, leave a comment [...]
