The sub-two-hour marathon – what do we know about the great British record holder behind it? In the time it took Eliud Kipchoge to prove that No Human is Limited, plastic pollution was pushing for a new record 2000 metric tons of waste dumped into the ocean in less than 2 hours. That’s 8 million…
Two weekends, two contrasting endurance races… 06/02/19 Chester has been on my marathon wish list for a while, a big-small road marathon, very popular amongst runners. I entered impetuously after The Great Welsh Marathon in Spring had left me with unfinished business in terms of getting a time. At the Great Welsh I set my…
The Special Delivery very nearly didn’t make it into my Words&Deeds Lab as I had left the brown dog on Reception Duty and she was camouflaged in the brown shadows under a brown bush in the garden. So, it was a frozen mid motion postie who waved a promising white envelope in my general direction,…
Unconventionally, my second 100-mile race was one that many recommend for their first. Equally, entering a 100-mile race two weeks before is not in the standard learn-Ultra rule book. But two weeks out I suddenly had the weekend free and scanned the Internet for a race. I chose the full Robin Hood, rather than say…
My invitation, courtesy of marvellous promotional staffing agency Mash, was a little short on details, keeping the event itself lightly under wraps. I knew I was going to an event at a new venue, SamsungKX (King’s Cross) and I knew that the venue was definitely not a shop, and that there would be a ‘vertical…
Some invitations have a certain stand out. Could I stomach an egg mayo bagel whilst whirlybirding around the Shard in a stunt helicopter? Okay. Thank you for thinking of me Deliveroo. Put me on that rota. Without so much as Roger Moore eyebrow raise, I accepted this mission. My last invitation to London had been…
I like social running. Ultras and trail running certainly have a camaraderie vibe that is less often seen in road running. Perhaps that is because times have less meaning on the trail or trail runners come out for the countryside as much as the exercise? Anyhow, a fun run on my horizon in October is…
Every now and then, club running turns up a classic occasion, and that was the case 10 days ago when a gang of unlikely dynamos turned out for Chippenham Harriers for the Road League 5 x 10K race at the Two Tunnels. We could not have been less heralded at the outset nor more proud…
August 2019 I have just finished a tour of some of the best places in live in Europe. I’d like to call it an EU tour, but though I travelled seamlessly through it, I did go via Switzerland. Still, we started and finished in the EU. Setting out as a group of four, each leg…
Written in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote in 2016, this letter to Boris Johnson remains as true today, as it was then and as a consequence this letter is often revived online. Now, after the man has finally built his own cabinet, I am reviving it. Not a word of the below has…