Hills & Spills: the Cransley Hospice 10k 2012
It’s been a while since I did a race report, mainly because it’s been a while since I did a race, so here goes… Sunday 15th September, and time for the annual Cransley Hospice Road Race, an event held...
View ArticleRace Report: 2013 Marston Forest 5k
Friday 14th June 2013 Marston Vale Millenium Country Park, Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire I last ran the Marston Forest 5k back in 2011, and it was my first ever race. I was new to running, I was slow...
View ArticleThunder Run 2013 (part one)
By now you may have already had a peek at my build-up to this year’s TR24. You may have even endured the War and Peaceness that was last year’s race report*. Brevity isn’t one of my strong points, so...
View ArticleThunder Run 2013 (part two)
If you haven’t read part one yet, you might want to go back and do that now. But hey, I’m not here to tell you what to do. If you’re one of those renegade play-by-your-own-rules types, read on anyway…...
View ArticleRace Report: Bedford Harriers Half Marathon 2013
Just time for a quick(ish) race report, rather than the usual 17000 word epic with Vikings and car chases and jam and spaceships and elephants and some more Vikings, and then even more Vikings, but...
View ArticleRace Report: Mizuno Reading Half Marathon 2014
A couple of days ago, I was lucky enough to take part in the Reading Half, as part of Team Write This Run. For those of you who’ve never heard of Write This Run, it’s a website for people who not only...
View ArticlePre-race report: Colworth Marathon Challenge 2015
Dennis Kimetto ran a marathon in 2:02:57 Paula Radcliffe ran one in 2:15:25 Sweary knuckle-faced chef Gordon Ramsey ran one in 3:30:37 This weekend I’m aiming to run a marathon in 41:35:00 This race...
View ArticleThunder Run 2015
Just time for a very quick run-down of this years TR24, which I entered as part of a team of four: The Sneaky Badgers. I’ve done massive million-word waffling race reports for previous Thunder Runs,...
View ArticlePre-race report: Colworth Marathon Challenge 2015
Dennis Kimetto ran a marathon in 2:02:57 Paula Radcliffe ran one in 2:15:25 Sweary knuckle-faced chef Gordon Ramsey ran one in 3:30:37 This weekend I’m aiming to run a marathon in 41:35:00 This race...
View ArticleThunder Run 2015
Just time for a very quick run-down of this years TR24, which I entered as part of a team of four: The Sneaky Badgers. I’ve done massive million-word waffling race reports for previous Thunder Runs,...
View ArticlePre-race report: Colworth Marathon Challenge 2015
Dennis Kimetto ran a marathon in 2:02:57 Paula Radcliffe ran one in 2:15:25 Sweary knuckle-faced chef Gordon Ramsey ran one in 3:30:37 This weekend I’m aiming to run a marathon in 41:35:00 This race...
View ArticleThunder Run 2015
Just time for a very quick run-down of this years TR24, which I entered as part of a team of four: The Sneaky Badgers. I’ve done massive million-word waffling race reports for previous Thunder Runs,...
View Article“Now bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible” (Shakespeare Half...
I’m not going to do a full race report for last weekend’s Shakespeare Half in Stratford-On-Avon. The conditions were perfect and it wasn’t a bad course, but ultimately my training was all a bit...
View ArticleRace report: Run Bedford 10k
This was only the second in the Run Bedford series, with the first 10k event taking place last year and attracting just over 400 runners. This year saw over 750. Now, I’m no mathematician but by my...
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