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Jun
26

You run 1095 miles and then can't even get a beer

So this morning I gathered with my little Glee Club of running to head on a circuit of Hyde Park to go past the 1095 mile minimum mileage point that I set myself when starting to run daily back on September 20 last year. On day 280 of the challenge, my fellow runners included David, [...]

Jun
05

Running on two hours sleep (Friday's run)

So I am actually posting about Friday’s run after a difficult set of circumstances on Saturday afternoon… Thursday night, Laura went to see Sex & The City II with her pals and I met a couple of mates in Soho for a few beers and figured we could meet after and go home together. At [...]

Jun
03

Perspiration for the nation

According to the old saying “Horses sweat, men perspire and ladies merely glow”… well I must be a horse then. When I run – and I know this is unpleasant – I tend to lose a lot of liquid, I mean a lot of liquid. When David and I went out for my 1000th mile run at [...]

May
24

Hot in the city, tonight…

… well, I was a fan of Billy Idol as a kid. I didn’t get the chance to run this morning. Injured? Up late? Too much on? Nope, none of the above… I was actually up at 5am to watch the finale to the TV show Lost. I was shifting at The Express today and [...]

May
23

I love the smell of barbecue when running… not

We’ve got Laura’s cousin Rob, her sister Annamarie and George, her Greek husband down from Leeds for the weekend. George has been a friend of mine for years and Laura and I introduced them. Last night the girls and Rob were at their other sister Alice’s hen-do and George and I went up to Brick [...]

Apr
24

Feels like summer is here

Pretty sunny and hot went I went out this morning. Laura came with me to Tooting Common – not to go around with me of course but to sit in the sun reading the paper at the common caff while I went on my run. There were loads of people out today – all the [...]

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