May
17
I’m media training today and need to be in town by 7.30, so I’ve been up since 4.45 and hit the road ten minutes later. It’s a gorgeous time to run when you do it so early. Hardly anyone is around, no cars, just you, the odd street cleaner and the birds. The weather was [...]
May
15
My experience from the few races I’ve done is that I normally feel a bit blue in the week after but also ache enough to not want to try another long run the weekend after. Not so this morning. I first opened my eyes at about 5.30am with sun streaming through the windows, managed to [...]
May
15
The weather is getting warmer and I’m starting to get that the warmth is not the friend of the runner. Despite now stripping kit right back to just tee, shorts, socks, shoes, even on a gentle 3 miler I end up drenched. At the end of a run, I always stretch in the same place [...]
May
13
I’ve never been a great sleeper. While I seem able to fall asleep almost instantaneously when it’s bed time, I’ll then be up several times in the night at around two hour intervals and hardly ever sleep any more than about five hours. It doesn’t seem to matter what time I go to bed either, [...]
May
12
Yesterday afternoon I had lunch with Emma O’Boyle who works for Tripadvisor. After asking me about my running challenge, she said: ‘Surely, you must feel healthier for it?’ The surprising thing is, I don’t – or at least I don’t think I do. On the one hand, I’m obviously fitter, I don’t think I could [...]
May
12
Click here for a link to Garmin Connect and details of the day’s run Miles today: 3.10 Target: 702 Miles to date: 928.97 Please donate to my chosen charities by clicking here
May
10
I was a bit achey today, but not half as bad as I thought I might be, nor half as bad as what I’d been after some of my earlier half marathons. I took the run around 8am from Laura’s mum’s house, heading down Weatherby Road in light rain and still basking from yesterday’s PB… [...]
May
09
So with a huff and a puff and by the skin of our teeth, Leeds Utd were promoted back to the Championship yesterday and I couldn’t even have a drink to celebrate with this morning’s race ahead of me. I had a dreadful night’s sleep, waking up with pre race nerves several times through the [...]
May
06
One of the charities I declared an interest in when I put my name forward for the London Marathon ballot two days ago was Guide Dogs. They sent me some more information yesterday and one of the things I noticed on their site was that you can become a guide runner – helping blind runners [...]
May
05
I didn’t realise sometimes running slower than you are used to is harder than running faster. For the last couple of weeks my training pace has upped quite a bit and I’ve been covering my 3 miles a day in about 26 minutes. But conscious of this weekend’s Leeds half marathon, I tried to slow [...]
