The Did Not Starts also known as… A future Race Calendar After an inspirational conversation with fellow Twitter runner @dleiasna84 or LisaRuns4Sanity I decided that my previous DNSs will become a race calendar some day. I need closure goddammit. So here it is, out there like Lionel Blair. POSTPONED then DNS – Les Hutton 10M…
Category: race calendar
15/12/2013
Last year after the Movember 10K in Greenwich Park I decided that it would be the end of my running year. After all, the weather was getting bad, surely I would not succumb to the desire to continue running into the season of snow, santa suits and antlers. WRONG! I ran the Richmond 10K and…
11/09/2013
I didn’t run The Les Hutton 10 Miler in Dartford due to the flu. I didn’t run the Bromley 10K for the same reason. Longleat 10K, because I was moving. Gunnersbury 10 I was double-booked. Shakespeare half I injured myself the day before and missed it. I missed the Luxembourg night marathon because of Eddie…
24/08/2013
The race calendar – need some more in there… 25/08/2013 Bushy Park Half Marathon (Booked) 8/09/2013 Richmond Park 10K (Booked) 15/09/2013 London Zoo Stampede (Booked) 29/09/2013 BERLIN MARATHON (Booked) 27/10/2013 Great South Run (Booked) 9/11/2013 Disney Wine and Dine, Florida (Booked) ??/01/2014 Les Hutton 10 Miler (Deferral from last year) 02/03/2014 Roma Half Marathon (Booked)…
28/10/2013
THE GREAT SOUTH RUN… The BUPA Great South has a huge field, 25,000 for what is classed as the “World’s Premier 10 Mile Event.” It is a gold something-something event, I can’t remember what was said by the announcer over the PA, or maybe it was the wind howling at Portsmouth seafront. For all my…
04/08/2013
The York 10K Race Review…This weekend I took the train from Kings Cross on the Swift Nick trail to York, a beautiful northern city that was home to the Romans, and the Vikings, and the capital of William the Conqueror. Jane Tomlinson… The race was organised in memory of cancer campaigner Jane Tomlinson and her…
13/11/20113
The Walt Disney World Wine and Dine Half Marathon Spectacular Spectacular! This race had been in my calendar a while and I was super excited from the moment I decide to run through Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida. I had raced the North Carolina Half Marathon in Charlotte, around a NASCAR arena, and then in…
11/08/2013
The third race in three weeks or…Finally on that Road Movie to Berlin or…Yes! We have no bananas! “Yes! We Have No Bananas” is the title of a novelty song by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn from the 1922 Broadway revue Make It Snappy. Sung byEddie Cantor in the revue, the song became a major hit in 1923 (placing No. 1 for five weeks)[1] when it…
15/06/2013
The 20 week sub-4 hour Marathon Program or… WTF am I doing running 26.2? or… A Road Movie to Berlin or… I actually cannot remember where I got this training program. It was online. It was probably a Yasso one, but I am not sure any more. I copied it into Excel and printed the…
15/06/2013 Additional
THE RUNNERS KNEES INAUGURAL #VIRTUAL10MILER.. In December last year I ran the #virtualhalfmary, the brainchild of Michelle and Brenda but what was it and what will the RunnersKnees #virtual10miler be? In short, it’s a race held on one day (29th June) where all racers run the same distance (10 miles), track it and post results and…
19/06/2013
The Inaugural RunnersKnees #Virtual10Miler So this is how it works…. or…How to run a virtual race1. First choose a day. For me I have chosen the 29th June 2013. 2. Next. Advertise. You would have seen me tweet the shit out of this. I want 25 runners across the globe. Once you have 25 runners,…
24/06/2013
The Torbay Half Marathon 23rd June 2013 Race ReviewI am sitting, writing this, in a great deal of discomfort. That, in itself, is not a bad thing. I have been without discomfort after a race for a while, probably Paris, that I ran a week after Tunbridge Wells. It reminds me of the early days,…
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