Thames Meander Marathon – 07/11/2015

In the weeks following the London marathon back in April the overriding feeling was disappointment. I'd run a large personal best (completing the course in 3 hours and 13 minutes - 16 minutes quicker than in Paris 12 months previously), but I felt that my training had merited a faster time. For some reason I wasn't …

Brockwell parkrun 31/10/2015 – Another PB! and some pre-marathon thoughts

I've been building towards the Thames Meander marathon for the last 8 weeks or so, and we're now just 6 days away. Training has gone fairly smoothly and I've been running faster than ever before over the shorter distances (although this doesn't always convert to a fast marathon time, as I've found out in the …