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
28
Mar
26
Mums always think you're the best
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
Running with altitude – the hypoxic chamber
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
Trying to gee myself up
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
Split to the gym and back
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
Suggest more songs for tomorrow's race
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
Suggest a song for Sunday
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 [...]
Feb
18
The hills are alive
As part of my regime for the Brighton Marathon, I was supposed to do some hill training last week while in Orlando. Pushed for time though and given Orlando is as flat as one of this Tuesday’s pancakes, I’d missed it out in favour of a flat run and so decided to do it today. [...]
Feb
17
Sometimes you just don't feel like running…
… and today was one of them. On top of a slight cold I’m sure I got by taking an ice bath after Sunday’s 15 miler, my legs are still slightly sore from that run and my chest muscles ache from a weights session at the gym yesterday. To top it all, I hardly slept [...]
Feb
16
Day 150 and thank heaven for sports massage
For Natalie Onions – as mad as me Crickey, day 150 and still feeling very tender after Sunday’s 15miler… this training for the Brighton marathon is taking its toll. I felt even more tender when I visited my sports massage therapist Lillian this morning. When I told her where it hurt, she started sucking her [...]
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