Sunday 10th October, 9am My training for this marathon commenced on 6th October 2020, with the first run in my training diary being a 12.5 mile easy run along the Forest Way. The opening page of my diary reads as… Read More »Budapest marathon 2021 – review
Endure24 is a 24 hour solo or team relay race run over a 5 mile trail loops on private country estates. It is described as “Glastonbury for runners” and usually takes place in Reading over the second weekend in June.… Read More »Virtual Endure 24
I signed up for this race at the beginning of February in the knowledge that this would be quite a step-up in distance for me, given that I haven’t run further than 15 miles in my marathon training so far… Read More »Lydd 20 mile road race – Sunday 8th March 2020
This year the English National Cross Country Championships took place in the Midlands, with Wollaton Park in Nottingham acting as the venue. Each year the venue for “The Nationals” alternates between the South, Midlands and North of England – last… Read More »English National Cross Country Championships: Wollaton Park, Nottingham – Saturday 22nd February 2020
Whilst searching for running images of myself on the Internet this morning, I had the pleasure of coming across some blog posts which I wrote in my old DJ’ing blog on “Blogger” back in 2013! I used this blog to… Read More »The Running Man blog (2013)
I travelled down to Plymouth on the Friday morning, catching a train from High Brooms in order to arrive at Paddington station in good time for the 11:03 departure. I arrived in Plymouth soon after 2.30pm due to a slight… Read More »Plymouth 10k – October 7th 2018
On Monday 28th May 2018 Joe led a group of RTW runners (and supporters) up to London for the Vitality 10k race for the 11th edition of this hugely popular event. Preparations for the trip started way back in November… Read More »London Vitality 10k, Monday 28th May 2018 – race report
I decided to return to this wonderful event having first taken part last year (see my 2017 blog post). I signed up for this event in the Autumn of 2017, before I had found out that I would gain entry… Read More »Britain’s Ocean City Half Marathon – Sunday 20th May 2018
On Sunday 22nd April 2018 I completed my first marathon. It happened to be the hottest London marathon on record and so it was set to be a challenge for me in more ways than one. Here, I write about… Read More »London Marathon – 22nd April 2018
It has been over two months since my last update and as I enter the final week in the lead up to my marathon debut in London, I thought it was about time to write a blog post to sum… Read More »Training & racing update – 15th April 2018