Here is my first update of what I hope will be an epic year of running, starting with January’s scores on the doors: All in all, January was a really solid body of work that …
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Boston on my mind – part 2
The first time. There is something undeniably magical about being part of the Boston Marathon. I can’t put my finger on it, but it’s there, in the air, almost tangible. It feels like the whole city is …
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Boston on my mind – Part 1
From a twinkle in my eye to a date in the diary. So with just a week to go to the 2018 Boston Marathon, and with training having turned to tapering, it seems as good …
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Ice ice, save me.
So it was all going so well. I had a storming first marathon of the season, and was happily trucking along with my in-between plan – all was rosy in Rob’s running garden. Or was …
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In-between days
A lot of runners (myself included) who take on more than one race in a ‘season’ (however you define it) run into a similar problem of training management. Our first race is done and dusted, …
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It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There’s almost no such thing as ready. There’s only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I’m about to go bungee jumping or something – I’m not. I’m not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
Hugh Laurie
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Fast, at last.
In May of 2010, not long after I’d limped over the finish line of my first ever marathon in a time of 4:18, a friend looked up what time I’d need to run to achieve …
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“Act your age and take up golf”
“Act your age and take up golf”. This was the advice given to me by a passing neighbor as I struggled to the end of one of my runs this week.
Run me to the moon 