I am behind on blog posts again; it's the fault of triathlon training. I need to write a long post about how that is going but I don't have time at the moment so here is a little one detailing a rather inauspicious PB. I've beaten my 5k PB three times already this year so … Continue reading The 10k PB
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Chase the Sun Olympic Park
This time last year I was nervously packing to head off to Brighton to run the marathon. My last 5k before the marathon was Grovelands parkrun, which I completed in 38:39. Every step was agony and I felt like I was going to throw up at the top of the hill. I remember getting to … Continue reading Chase the Sun Olympic Park
Chase the Sun Olympic Park
(For the 59 billionth time) This week's excuse for not doing 10k was the fact that I'd been up since the crack of dawn getting the Eurostar home from France and endured a very stressful journey in the same carriage as a family who seemed to think the aisle was a children's playground and who … Continue reading Chase the Sun Olympic Park
RunThrough Chase The Sun Brixton
The summer is almost over. I know this because for me, the weekly Wednesday night excursions to London parks to earn sun-shaped medals are over. There's one I can't get to next week, then the Wednesday nights go back to once a month in the Olympic Park until April. I actually feel quite bereft as … Continue reading RunThrough Chase The Sun Brixton
RunThrough Chase The Sun Hyde Park
Yesterday was the fourth time I have run the RunThrough Hyde Park 5k. My times from the previous four outings went like this: 25 April 39:17 23 May 39:26 6 June 40:10 and this was quite depressing because one is supposed to get faster and not slower! Anyway, I am delighted to say I have … Continue reading RunThrough Chase The Sun Hyde Park
RunThrough Chase The Sun Olympic Park
Regular readers of this blog (both of you) will notice that I have been fartarsing around with my running ever since the marathon with statements such as "Look I chose a parkrun with really big hills so I am perfectly justified in walking half of it" "It's a bit hot, I think I'll Jeff it, … Continue reading RunThrough Chase The Sun Olympic Park
Chase The Sun Crystal Palace
I was rather nervous about last night's race, not just because of the hills and uneven terrain of Crystal Palace Park, but because the equivalent fixture in last year's Chase The Sun calendar (exactly a year ago) had ended very badly. The race itself had seemed to go okay, but I had been having a … Continue reading Chase The Sun Crystal Palace
RunThrough Chase The Sun Wimbledon Common
I have not a lot to say about this week's race as it was pretty much exactly the same as the last month's. It was significantly hotter, but also significantly less mudder so I am hoping those two factors cancelled each other out and my time (40:11, exactly a minute faster than last month) represents … Continue reading RunThrough Chase The Sun Wimbledon Common
RunThrough Chase The Sun Wimbledon
The latest edition of RunThrough's evening run series took me to sunny Wimbledon, home of tennis and Wombles. I will admit that if I hadn't got the season pass, I would probably have given this one a big miss as it is a trail run and I might have mentioned once or twice that I … Continue reading RunThrough Chase The Sun Wimbledon
RunThrough Chase The Moon Hyde Park
This will be a fairly quick review, as the course was completely unchanged from last time, my time was almost exactly the same, and even the weather was pretty much identical. I went out last night with four goals: Run the whole thing (ie. no walking) Don't get lost Don't have a tantrum about inappropriate … Continue reading RunThrough Chase The Moon Hyde Park
RunThrough Chase The Sun Finsbury Park
I saw the work physio yesterday. He spent a while prodding my tibiæ (I had to Google the plural of "tibia") and poking them with what looked like a vibrating tuning fork, before agreeing with my self-assessment that I had a case of shin splints but no fracture and needed to take a week or … Continue reading RunThrough Chase The Sun Finsbury Park
RunThrough Chase The Sun Hyde Park
All those people who gave annoying, unsolicited, know it all advice in the run up to the marathon? I'd love to say they all conked out at 20 miles and shut up, but sadly not, they're all now boasting about how little time it took them to get back up and running again after the … Continue reading RunThrough Chase The Sun Hyde Park
RunThrough Chase The Sun Clapham Common
I am no longer training for anything (well, a few 10ks, but I can already run 10k) and this means I can do exactly as I like. So with this in mind, I went for a run. I have the Chase The Sun season pass this year, so I can attend as many of the … Continue reading RunThrough Chase The Sun Clapham Common