25/08/2013

Race 22 of my fledgling running life… orThe Bushy Park Half Marathon presented by Runthrough.co.ukThis morning I woke at 6am. Now, a lot of you make not think that is too early. I assume some of you work shifts, and others try to run before working a 9-5. Me? I don’t work shifts, and I…

16/04/2013

This was to be a joyous write-up, another race down, cracking bling, a challenging but fun course in the mountains, a Tweet Up, but I cannot shake the images of Boston out of my head. When the first plane hit the Twin Towers I was working on the trading floor of Bear Stearns. I stopped…

25/03/2013

The North Carolina Half Marathon, Charlotte, NC…I have lived and travelled all over the world, and subsequently am in a very privileged position to be able to call upon friends in places such as North Carolina if I wish to run there. And so I did. Having expanded from running 10s in London, the 10s…

23/12/2012

Virtual Half Mary Race Review…  There will not be much of a race review for this one. This was the brain child of my Twitter running people over in the US and can be read about here. A really good idea where people all over the world (US, Canada, UK, and Australia) run a half…

08/10/2012

The Royal Parks Half Marathon“When a guy turns up to Fight Club his ass is a wad of cookie dough, after a few weeks he is carved out of wood.” Tyler Durden, Fight Club. The Royal Parks Half marathon always seemed a long way away for me. Nestling deep in the Autumn when I signed up…

22/09/2012

Again in the email the countdown to my first half marathon continues. The Royal Parks half marathon has been emailing all the runners updates, advice, training tips and then yesterday… So I have just over two weeks until I run 21K in one go (the longest I have run is 16.6KM so far). I hope I…