It is the day after the day before and I am walking like Dorothy’s Tin Man around the apartment. To be fair movement helps. It is the getting up and sitting down that is the struggle. And the struggle is real. As the Insta-masses head to the Rome Ostia half and Tokyo to complete their…

My time in NY – It’s a hell of a town I lived in NY for years, nigh on a decade between a stint on the West Coast to consolidate the trading desks at  Bank of America before shipping them back East. It is a hellova town and I love it. And I lived the…

I’ve known Matt Jones for a good few years. He has always been there or thereabouts online but it was the first running of St Illtyd’s in 2018 where we first had crossover. I had a spare bib that I had bought for Jen but she was off on an adventure being Head of Automation…

The one where the thermometer broke I am in my comfort zone. When you have had a poor or bad experience I think it is a perfectly acceptable strategy to withdraw to a safe space, to recover, recuperate and build a base from which you can try again later. After a piss poor start to…

Has it really been a year since I last ran the Hell on the Humber, the HOTH, as 12 hour, 4 timed segment lap race across the Humber Bridge? Apparently so. And, like anything, you learn from it. Last time I ran the HOTH Karl (the RD) had changed the format. Rather than having to…

This one was not on the race calendar, even up to last month. The original plan had been to run the Highland Ultra in April, and to run the SDW50K a few weeks earlier in prep, and to run the Steyning Stinger marathon a month before in prep for that. But I decided on deferring…

Pronounced Stenning, the race organized by the local running club is quite famous around these here parts. The Steyning Stinger is renowned, along with Purbeck and Portland, as being a particularly challenging course and I signed up for it at the behest of my coach as part of my daisy chain of events. I signed…

Oh I have been here before, twice, or is it thrice? I have been running XNRG races for 5 years. They have been an ultra mainstay in my race calendar. And, if I ever have a gap that coincides with their races I will sign up. So much so that over those 5 years, including…

I love the Loch Ness marathon. I have run it 3 times and each time it did not disappoint. Sure, the second running was cold and wet, and less fun, a week after Manchester 2021. They became my slowest road marathons and it knocked me back a little, but only a little. You should rejoice…

It would be a different one this time. After Berlin being a solo weekend, and Loch Ness was a family affair with my brother, this would be a team weekend with International Running Coach Baz Tavener, PB girl Kaya, Jenni, Emma Longfellow and Laura Robbo descending on a town that can boast: Shed 7 as…

It was akin to a homecoming for my running. In 2013 I had planned to run the Berlin Marathon, one of the Abbotts Marathon Majors, as my first having signed up the last year before it went ballot. For many reasons I didn’t run it, reasons we don’t need to go into here. I was…