At each of my 202020 runs I will hope to track down one or two of the fine folk who toed the start line with me and find out what the race meant to them. Giorgio Guglielmino Country to the Capital struck me as a good first ultra, made all the better if you were…
At each of my 202020 runs I will hope to track down one or two of the fine folk who toed the start line with me and find out what the race meant to them. Dr. Hans-Peter Gräbel A quietly humoured business director from Wels in Austria, Hans-Peter finished a minute and a half ahead…
If there were an inspiration pyramid for UK running Steve Ovett would be somewhere near the top, a pioneer of the age when TV stopped being a luxury and enshrined the achievers of the day to the viewing masses for the first time. Coe and Ovett were the Bolt and Kipchoge of their day, global…
So, Zurich has seen me get underway and the chapter writing started in earnest. I was lucky to meet Jason Mccardle and Deborah Hale from Sussex Trail Events after we had finished, together with runners from Munich who called themselves the 6 loons “verrückte”. They will all add to the chapter when I finish writing…
Counting up every timed event I ran 44 events in 2019 and raced and trained for 2000 miles (exactly, as it happens!) As I have chosen 20 highlight events for 2020, here are the 19 that stood out in 2019. 19: Bridgwater 10K This was a PB race, lowering my 10K to 40.40, largely…
Why have people taken to running? I read an essay recently that said that more and more it was a status thing, that people are taking to listing their running feats on job hunt and dating sites. Far from self-discovery in allegiance with nature, and mental release, most runners, it surmised, actually heap more mental…
Therapy Evolved and Maxwell Coaching presented Mike James, the Endurance Physio to a packed room at Chippenham Golf Club on Wednesday 13th November. Attendees came from a full range of endurance runners and triathletes from Chippenham and Corsham alongside therapists and coaches. There is clearly appetite for forward thinking advice and insight resources for endurance…
The London to Brighton car rally is a sleeping giant of the automotive world. These days it is, in fact, accurately referred to as the Bonham’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, #veterancarrun. The event is designed to celebrate the emancipation of the motor car when in 1905 the speed limit went up to 14mph…
Last weekend took a derail as I received a late invite to go and see the Death Stranding experience at Camden Market, attended by gaming royalty in the shape of the brains behind it all – and before that the Metal Gear Solid franchise, Hideo Kojima, nowadays of Kojima Productions. The PS4 game Death Stranding…
The Leviathon, Southend Pier Marathon, Beyond the Far Side: Is there any merit in long races done as laps? In the last two weeks I have completed the 50-mile Leviathon which saw me repeat 7 there and back laps of the same stretch of Thames Path and the Southend Pier Marathon, which is 11 visits…