If You Can't Move It, Climb It

There's been a dearth of what I would term "personal" posts on here lately. Quite a few race reviews as I try to clear the bac...

Friday evening, the end of a long week. All I really wanted to do after finishing my work at the gym is to go home, have dinner and curl up...

The mayhem of January has now passed and my thoughts have turned rather suddenly to what my event schedule and race goals might be for the y...

We all know the importance of rest and recovery as part of our training schedules, right? Overtraining is a very real issue but how do you f...

A Bank Holiday weekend throws me at the best of times. That Monday feeling on a Tuesday? Wait, it's Friday already? What? But this weeke...

After returning from Iceland late last Thursday I was straight into the thick of things at the weekend. I had a great time helping out with ...

It's less than a month to go until the Brighton Marathon and so last weekend I did my longest run to date in this set of training; 3 hou...

Life is still mainly eat, work, train, sleep, repeat but I have managed to have a bit of life outside of that. Saturday was a happy mix of a...

For reasons that will become clear in due time I recently undertook a day course to become a metafit instructor. Metafit, for the uninitiat...

Sometimes it's not easy to take the necessary steps back to be objective about your own abilities and your training, even if you have th...

This week's training: Saturday : Rest day Sunday : 10 mile run Monday : 4 mile run Tuesday : 3 mile run Wednesday : 2 mile ru...

The last time I attended my local running club I got left behind on an 8 mile run. It was winter, dark, bit miserable and unfortunately not ...

The world of fitness is full of jargon. I'm not sure there's a runner left who isn't familiar with the term "fartlek" ...

This week I'm in France visiting family. This coincides with week 5 of my ultra marathon training and as such my plan advises me that I ...