Two years ago, I wrote but never published a post entitled "Things I hate about the London Marathon". I decided against posting it because I didn't want to piss on the parade of those who had found it a highlight of their racing calendar. Some of my vitriol, however, did seep into a Facebook post … Continue reading Hamburg Marathon 2025
This seems to have come around awfully quickly. It seems only yesterday I was entering the Hamburg Marathon in a fit of pique, my hopes of a decent performance at Yorkshire ripped to shreds along with my left calf. In my last post I was approaching the spiritual anniversary of my calf tear (the day … Continue reading Ten Days To Go
This will be one of those boring posts where everything is, for now anyway, going okay. Why is it that I find it so much easier to write about my running (or anything else) when it is all going wrong? I'd try to find something funny to say about the 2025 Brighton Half Marathon but … Continue reading One of those boring posts
I'm Leyton Orient at the beginning of the 2014/15 season. The play off final is lost and I'm regrouping, ready to go again. I'm hoping this is where I can stop extending the Leyton Orient analogy, because as you may know in the summer of 2014 Orient were sold to some pisstaker Italians who tried … Continue reading Football Analogies Probably Need To Stop Here
If I had to give you two really unhelpful tips about how to run a successful marathon, they would be: Don't get injured and spend the last six weeks of your training plan sat on your arse. Don't do it in a howling gale and torrential rain. If the unorthodox training finalé hadn't darkened my … Continue reading Yorkshire Marathon
I have done everything the physio has told me: endless calf raises, run/walk laps of Bartlett Park, graduation to a 37 minute parkrun and finally, tomorrow, my big test: a 10k race in Regents Park. If I can do that, I can give the Yorkshire Marathon a crack. I should be feeling pretty jubilant right … Continue reading Down Bad
I loved the Brighton Marathon. And I will never, ever do it again. "Oh, everyone says that," say my veteran marathoner friends. "I said that when I finished my first, and look, here I am on marathon number 59!" But I actually think that (barring some kind of lottery win where I can give up … Continue reading Why I Won’t Run Another Marathon
Photos from Saturday at the Race Village I'll get the important bit over and done with: the weather on the day of the 2018 Brighton Marathon turned out almost perfectly. It was cool and grey for the majority of the race, with an hour of not-too-heavy rain, and a little sun round about the time … Continue reading Brighton Marathon 2018
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