Week 2 – waking up early on the road to the Marine Corps Marathon For pretty much the whole time since I took up running I’ve been (with the general exception of my weekend long …
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Hot in the city
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Beginning Again
Week 1: Starting out on the road to the Marine Corps Marathon I’ve found myself agreeing these past couple of weeks with the theory that you cannot start to train for your next race, until …
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Groundhog Day
Here we go again. Stress fracture redux. A little more than one year on from the last one, I find myself back at square one, stress fracture (or ‘reaction’ my physio likes to call it) …
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18 weeks
So here we go again. 18 weeks between now and the Brighton Marathon start line. 18 weeks of uphills and downhills, of good runs and bad runs, of aches, pains and soreness. 18 weeks of …
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5 things I learnt running the St George Marathon
At the end of a marathon, I always find it helpful to take a moment to reflect on the run, to think about the lessons or insights that I gained from the exercise, and share …
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One Good Run
I’m not proud to admit this, but there have been times over the past couple of months where I have really felt like quitting. Stopping. Not running anymore. You see it all got a little …
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How much isn’t enough?
On Sunday I’m running the Vancouver Marathon. This will be my 5th marathon in 30 months, and the third time in Vancouver. I had promised myself that this Spring I would run in a different …
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Reasons to Run #2 – It’s like Weight Watchers for the mind
The second in an (very) occasional series of why, IMHO, running rules. I started writing this post the other day, at 35,000ft, somewhere over S. Dakota, thinking how nice it was to enjoy a few …
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Looking for a job? Start running.
If you’ve ever been to “Interviewer Skills” training, or been briefed by a recruiter prior to conducting an interview, you will no doubt have been told that “past performance is the best gauge to future …
Run me to the moon 