Pic by Simon Lamb www.sixsecondshigh.com Thousands of runners, supporters, officials and vendors have gathered at the bottom of Parliament Hill. Flags of many colours have been stabbed into the muddy ground marking out a few meters of turf as being the gathering point for various running clubs for the National Cross Country Championships [...]
"What do you want to do for your birthday?" "Run and drink beer." And that's what we did. Last year I persuaded some of my friends to do a half marathon and then go to the pub for my birthday. The half marathon turned out to be a bit too short to claim a PB [...]
"How often do you run?" It's a question my runners ask me a lot. Right now I run a lot more frequently than I ever have. Funny how training for an ultra marathon will do that for you. I'm pretty much recovered from Country to Capital and back up to running five times a week. So [...]
My friends Rick and George have made a great film about 'Marathon Man’ Rob Young. Here they write about how their film captures a snapshot of his epic journey – one that, in many ways, isn’t about running at all. [LINK TO FILM.] “That isn’t possible.” That’s what I thought when I first heard about Rob [...]
I love writing training plans. Whether it's for me or for someone else, taking a fresh sheet of paper, a calendar and some coloured pens and writing and scribbling until it all makes sense pleases me. I love putting in the training for a goal race, ticking off the sessions I've planned and seeing the [...]
Guest post by Phil, who has previously written about radio runner and the Hurden 18. I don’t really care about my appearance. As long as I am regarded as super hot by the leading actresses and models of the day, I am quite relaxed about my ear hair. So, I am not exactly a boxfresh type [...]
Today I went for a run with American comedian Liz Miele. Like me, she likes running marathon, so I invited her to come for a run with me through East London. You can hear some of Liz's stand-up if you catch one of her gigs while she's touring the UK, or in iTunes and Youtube. [...]
"Let's go swimming" we said. "In January", we said. "Outdoors, without a wetsuit." Back in the summer, it seemed a good idea to enter the Cold Water Swimming Championships at Tooting Lido. The championships only take place every two years. Couple that with the fact that places sell out faster than a polar bear chasing [...]
This month my publishers decided that, because the ebook version of The Lazy Runner had been pretty popular, they'd release a paperback. It was a very exciting day for me to get a delivery of real books made of paper with my name on them. I've posted copies to friends and family, the first in [...]
On my biggest Ironman training weekend last year, I left the lido having swam 3km for the first time. My friend Josie took a photo of me jumping in the air ecstatic. It wasn't just because I'd swam further than I'd ever swum before but because I'd just read an email that said that Tricurious, [...]