Running the 66-mile Vanguard Way: 27 days to go
Following yesterday’s 30 miles, I had run 60 miles for the week. I had planned to run a few loosening, slow miles to claim a 100km week – before thinking […]
Running the 66-mile Vanguard Way: 28 days to go
The following contemplations emerged today as I ran 30 miles. I should note that I am writing this while crammed on a train feeling nauseous. My judgement is impaired. Firstly, […]
Running the 66-mile Vanguard Way: 29 days to go
Another day, another run, another 24 hours closer to 66 miles. A light effort was all that was required today: five-ish miles of watch-free, undulating trail in the pleasanter environs […]
Running the 66-mile Vanguard Way: 30 days to go
In my years as a considerably more serious (and anarchic) cyclist than I am these days, the idea of being caught breaching 30mph on a speed camera was greatly appealing. […]
Running the 66-mile Vanguard Way: 31 days to go
Tomorrow is May 16. In one month’s time, on June 16, I will – injury and illness-depending – equal the furthest distance I have ever run. That previous run was […]
Three Forts Marathon and the need for constancy
The essence of Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch is that Arsenal is the author’s constant in life. Amid the flux of education, work, relationships, happiness and sadness, Arsenal and football remain […]
South Downs Way 50: over before it began
Three unfortunate things happened this week: Monday – I drive from Lancashire to London. As I leave St Annes on Sea on the Fylde coast, I reset the mileage clock […]
Pendle Fell Race 2013 – race report
It is the taking part that counts, isn’t it? Discounting the Box Hill Fell Race, it has been a while since I have run a proper hill or fell race. […]
Finding the motivation to run
If I refused to run every time I did not feel like it, I would never run. Never is an exaggeration, of course, but finding the motivation to run is […]
Preparing for the South Downs Way 50 with the father of endurance challenges
I was following the progress of the 147-mile Viking Way Ultra at the weekend, a through-the-night race in Lincolnshire and Rutland that goes on for an impossible number of hours. […]
Steyning Stinger Marathon in pictures
I am 162. I do not know what I am doing. Usain Bolt-style warm-up? Trying to psyche out Stuart Mills (the runner rubbing his hands together)? The first ‘sting’: running […]
How I almost won the Steyning Stinger Marathon
I could have won the Steyning Stinger Marathon. I should have won the Steyning Stinger Marathon. Had I been running the 2012 version, I would have been clear in first […]
