‘Brief’ update – new 5km PB

Regular readers to the blog will know there's no such thing as brief when it comes to these pages. But I promise to keep this one as short as possible. The legs felt pretty decent in the days after the marathon and I was running again pretty much straight away - albeit easy stuff. 6 …

The alternative Barcelona Marathon – by Paul Brown

My contribution to this self-indulgent orgy of running is not like other posts. This seems about right because in a lot of meaningful ways I am not like other runners: I carry significantly more mass than most; I do not bore friends with talk of negative splits, over-pronation and cadence; and I did not fail …

Barcelona marathon 2016 – 13/03/2016

Katie has already joked that writing this has probably taken longer than actually running the marathon - I don't think she's wrong. Settle in, grab a cup of tea or a beer, and find out if I finally managed to run in marathon in under 3 hours.. -------------------------- The sub 3 hour marathon. Many runners have this …

Barcelona Marathon – Pre Race

I can’t believe it’s just a few days until 20,000 of us will be lining up for the start of the Barcelona marathon. I’ve been training hard for 16 weeks, and hopefully on Sunday all the early morning long runs and hard interval sessions around the infamous St. Georges Park in Wandsworth (running isn’t exactly …

Kingston 10K

Time seems to be moving forward at an incredible pace, with now just 13 days to go until the Barcelona marathon. I had a slight injury scare in the week after the Bramley 20, which forced me into a few days with a lot less running, but thankfully the pain in my upper calf seemed …