After the big achievement of reaching my #RU2C goal yesterday, it’s not surprise that today felt a little flat. I think this is the flip-side of event motivation; once an event is complete, suddenly that…
I’ve mentioned in the last couple of days that the running this week has been heavy going. It was all made worthwhile today as I completed the Run Up 2 Christmas #RU2C Challenge. A big…
I’ve not done a training-based blog post for a little while, so I thought I’d talk about speed and interval sessions. Do long distance runners really need to do speed and interval sessions? One of…
Today is #REDBED Day 21 and was a tough one. Not so much emotionally, but definitely physically! Training and rest I’ve mentioned in a couple of previous posts about the way that training and over-training…
Today is #REDBED Day 20. So almost 2/3rd of the way through #REDBED and 80% of the way through the Run Up 2 Christmas challenge which I’m doing alongside it. I thought today I might…
Yesterday’s post was a little bit downbeat. Hopefully today’s will counter that, with a couple of milestones reached in the various challenges I’m doing. A couple of milestones It might seem odd that Day 19…
Foggy weather Today started off with freezing fog. And finished with fog. Today would not be a contender for ‘The Good Weather Day awards 2017’. I’m not sure if the grey weather was the cause,…
It’s #REDBED Day 17 today! An update on the various challenges As you might have expected if you read yesterday’s blog, I was pretty close to achieving the 2017 run 1000 miles challenge ‘officially’. Today,…
Today marks the start of the second half of December and that I’m half way through #REDBED. It is also the 47th day in my somewhat extended run streak. A recap on #REDBED I thought…
Some days I have a plan about what will appear in the blog posts. Other times, it’ll be influenced by something that has cropped up during the day. Today’s theme is safety, and very much…
