Jul
04
Another day on the personal training course today and another early morning run… Running at just after six am on a Sunday morning is even worse than running at just after six am on a Saturday morning! Anyway, I was pretty shattered when I woke up: a week of increasing my mileage to five miles [...]
May
31
My experience of Bank Holidays is that they tend to fly past – but this weekend seems to have been a pretty slow one, with today, especially, seemingly lasting 40 hours instead of 24… I’m not sure if that has anything to do with not having a full-time job any more or not, but it [...]
Apr
30
So after last night’s couple of beers turned into a couple more, the last thing I wanted to do was get straight up and go for a run. As I was working at home today, I stalled all morning and then, when the afternoon came and I was about to head to the gym, I [...]
Apr
29
I’m actually writing this post for Thursday’s run on Friday evening, as I just didn’t have time yesterday. I had a day hosting a media training session that started at 7.30am at the BBC on Regent Street and so was up at 5am and had my trainers on and was on the road by 5.08… [...]
Apr
11
We were up at my stepbrother’s for the weekend, his little un was Christened today and Laura and I were godparents. This morning I just managed to squeeze in a 4miler – I decided not to do too much with the Brighton Marathon just a week away – before we headed off. I tried out [...]
Mar
25
Please donate to my chosen charities by clicking here I won’t harp on about this every post otherwise the blog will become more about fundraising than about the challenge… but I’m overwhelmed that, with Gift Aid, I’ve already raised more than £700. Thanks so much to all that have donated and to all those that [...]
Mar
18
I was feeling pretty good after yesterday’s run… hardly any pain at all, which saw me forgo my evening session of icing the bits that hurt: big mistake as when I went out this morning, I felt stiffer than I have all week to the point where I had to leave the on-road route I [...]
Mar
15
After yesterday’s mammoth, I left it till the early evening to go out and run today, which is a shame as after a lovely sunny day, it was getting chilly again. I decided to run Streatham Common to get some hills back into the training and actually felt surprisingly good though, naturally, a little stiff. [...]
Mar
05
This has, admittedly, been quite a bad week for me. Since running the Portsmouth Coastal Half Marathon a couple of weeks ago, my legs have ached like never before and last weekend’s sojourn to the Peak District did no help at all. Throughout the week, I’ve come close to downing tools, too tired to carry [...]
Mar
02
For Lillian, the sports masseuse I woke up this morning with the calf still sore and was just about to go out for a slow one when an email popped into my box: ‘You sound sore, fancy some company?’ It was my pal, Ben Maher, who is training for the London Marathon and was working [...]
