2017 training/racing summary

Here we are again. Another year over, and yet another blog post summarising how many circles I've managed to run/cycle/swim around in this year. Well, swimming is more up and down as opposed to circles; but you still end up in the same place. If you've got an incredible amount of spare time on your …

Bath two tunnels 10k – 26/02/2017

Every year both Katie and I organise a 'mystery' trip which takes in a race, with the other person only knowing the length of the race and the date, but not the location. Back in August I took her out to Norway for the Stavanger half marathon, slightly breaking the rules as we're meant to …

2016 training summary

Quite unbelievably, this blog has now been running for over 3 years, and the little stats page tells me that people are still reading it (well at least opening the page and getting through the first paragraph or so before going back to browsing Facebook). At the end of each year I've done a little …

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 …

Olympic park 10k – 13/12/2015

It's been a bit quiet on here in the past month or so. Don't panic though - I've still been doing plenty of running. I decided to take a couple of weeks off structured training immediately after the Thames Meander marathon, as my legs were completely trashed. I was still feeling really motivated so I …