Cape Peninsula Half Marathon – 16/02/20

Good morning/afternoon sports fans. Yet another slightly longer gap between posts. Not me being lazy this time, just no real races of note to report on, and nobody wants to hear 'I ran x miles on Monday followed by swimming x miles on Tuesday etc etc' - people only read to hear about me making …

Green Belt Relay 2019

The Green Belt Relay. Who can think of a better way of spending your entire day, than being shuttled around the outskirts of the M25 in a minibus, sharing close personal space with 43 other runners who have raced but definitely not showered, before getting a few hours kip and doing it all over again? …

Wokingham half marathon – 24/02/2019

Blimey - it's been nearly 2 months since I've blogged! I've been bombarded with daily messages during that time, asking what an earth is going on. Writers block? Endurance sport retirement? The honest trust - I've actually been concentrating on doing some training. Well, there's a first time for everything. It hasn't been a completely …

Mince Pi Run – 50km – 17/12/2018

Christmas. A time for relaxing, indulging and wading through a freezing cold river crossing 10 times. I've always assumed this was everybody's idea of fun, so I was surprised to only see 200 people hanging around a field just outside Guildford, ready for the 2018 Mince Pi run. Now, before you all start correcting my …

The Stickler 2018 (10 miles) – 28/10/18

The last few months have all been rather serious. Training plans, watching my waist line, and even this weird thing called 'swimming'. Now Kona 2018 is in the books, it's time to have a bit of fun and enjoy the novelty of not having a schedule to follow, giving me a good mental as well …

Wokingham half marathon – 18/02/2018

It's been an odd couple of months. With my goal race for 2018 (Ironman UK) still 5 months away, it's difficult to look that far ahead into the future and get really excited. I've done some shorter, low-key running races, but gone into these fatigued and unmotivated, which has led to mediocre (by my standards) …

South of England cross country championships – 27/01/2018

It's nearly been a month since my last post. I suppose January is never really much of a racing month. It's more of a, grind out the sessions in the dark and cold kinda month. Not glamorous, especially when you've lost some fitness over the Christmas period, but it's always really pleasing when you start …

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 …

Wimbledon trail series race 1 – 03/05/2017

Recovery post-London has been much better than I could've ever expected. A small amount of soreness on the Monday/Tuesday but I still managed some gentle running, and by Thursday I was raring to go again, but did the sensible thing and kept it nice and easy for the rest of the week. A 'lads' trip …

Southern cross country championships – 28/01/17

Reading my report from this race last year, I've pulled out the following extract; 'I crossed the line and immediately tried to suck in as much air as physically possible. What an absolute beast of a race. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d had to work as hard as that.' My strava activity from …