Run up to Christmas – using Strava
This is a slightly unusual post. By way of background, a large number of my #LymeRunners group are taking part in this year’s RunUp2Christmas fundraiser for MIND. Whilst quite a few have GPS running watches,…
This is a slightly unusual post. By way of background, a large number of my #LymeRunners group are taking part in this year’s RunUp2Christmas fundraiser for MIND. Whilst quite a few have GPS running watches,…
Only one week since I completed my second ultra-marathon and I’m back out on the start line again for another race – the English Half Marathon. I thought I’d tell you about my day and…
Today I completed my second ultra-marathon of the summer, and in fact my second ever bona fida ultra! So I thought I ought to tell you all about it. Beyond Marathon The Gritstone Grind is…
After many years of hammering my body on the roads chasing after PBs, I’ve realised that I’ve lost a lot of the enjoyment that I used to get from running. In this blog I set out my thoughts about how this happened and what I’m doing to find my missing mojo.
It seems like a long time ago that I embarked on a charity fund-raiser for MIND back in December 2017. In conjunction with the ‘Run Up 2 Christmas‘ project co-ordinated by a fabulous couple of…
It’s been a busy (ish) month for races during August 2018, although it wasn’t planned that way. Whilst Cracken Edge Fell Race had been on the calendar since January, the rest of the month was…
Having done precious little writing until recently I’ve now hit a period of races in quick succession. And whilst there are a number of other things I keep planning on writing about, I might as…
On starting this post I realise that last year when I wrote about the Cracken Edge Fell Race that I combined the post with one for another race. And history repeats itself, at least with…
My write up of the Scott Snowdonia Trail Ultra Marathon, organised by Always Aim High Events. This new event has a distance of 60km and an elevation of 7200ft. Basically it’s not messing about.
The Kinder Trog race has been in my calendar all of 2018. The longest race in the Hayfield Championship races it would be my first ‘long’ category fell race (in excess of 13 miles). In…