On Sunday I set a new marathon personal best and, if I’m honest, it was a complete accident. The day before the race I confessed to my friend that I didn’t even really want to run this marathon, my running mojo had been kicked into the long bushes as the fear of Marathon des Sables … Continue reading Marathon Tactics – Divide and Conquer
New York is the backdrop to countless cliché movies, Hollywood’s dreams are woven through it’s every avenue and street. It is a place that you can’t help but feel hopeful in. Those cinematic endings where the music swells and everyone gets their happily ever after overrides your self-held sensibilities. It is intoxicatingly inspiring. On December … Continue reading New York State of Mind – Part One
For anyone who has ever dreamed of getting that coveted six-star marathon majors medal, this is the product review for you. Not many of the runners I have spoken to knew that apart from qualifying, ballot or charity places there is another way of securing one of those elusive spots in marathons such as New … Continue reading 2:09 – A Review
There are two moments that I say my running started; the first time I dragged my arse off the sofa and went out for a run and the Oxford Half in 2015. While it is hard to imagine a time when I wasn't running and blogging, I never actually wrote about my first half marathon as … Continue reading Running in my own Footprints
I said in a blog post last year that marathons come down to just a few moments, sometimes they can just come down to 93 collected seconds. Moscow Marathon had seemed like a far off venture for so long that it some how managed to sneak up on me rather unprepared. After Lakeland 50, my … Continue reading One Minute and Thirty Three Seconds
This taxi is going way over the speed limit down the motorway and I’m getting changed in the back seat, just your standard race morning. I don’t tend to write up every race nowadays as I know you’d probably get a bit bored of the same old story but the Richmond Runfest 10K was no ordinary … Continue reading Not a Regular Raceday
I haven't been as honest as I should've been, I'm sorry. The Two Tunnels Half Marathon hurt, both mentally and physically. I could list hundreds of reasons why it didn't go to plan but the truth is there's only one reason that mattered; I didn't take the challenge seriously. I became complacent in what a … Continue reading Filter Photos Not Words.
As runners, we are constantly on the look out for new ways to make us faster and more efficient. One of the easiest ways, without more bloody training, is to have a pair of shoes that enhances your running. So at every marathon expo or running event I would stare enviously at the On stand, … Continue reading On Cloudflyer – A Review
“The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.” - Arthur C Clarke When I first started running in 2015 just getting two miles down the road without stopping seemed impossible. My burning lungs and lead like legs would slow me to a walk. As the months went by … Continue reading Going the Distance – My First Ultramarathon (pt 1)
After the London Marathon has been packed away for another year and people begin to drift back to their daily lives, slightly chaffed, a strange thing starts to happen: medals from the iconic race start to appear on eBay. I’ve always found this very bizarre, why sell and crucially why buy something earned through sweat, pain and … Continue reading Selling My London Marathon Medal
