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
This was the third virtual “lockdown” challenge which had been devised by my running club, Lingfield RC, having previously completed a solo 5km effort and a pairs 10 mile relay in May. For those of you who are unaware of… Read More »Virtual Comrades marathon
Earlier this year I applied for the Aftershokz “UK Shokzstar Program” along with almost 1,200 other people! Although I was not one of the 10 applicants who were accepted onto the program, I was invited to join their “Shokzsquad beta”… Read More »Product review: Aftershokz Trekz Titanium headphones
Week 5 of my training for the Cork City marathon saw me recovering from the Lydd 20 mile road race which I had completed on the Sunday of week 4. My running mileage was limited, partly due to the pain… Read More »Cork City marathon training – week 5
Monday 10th February saw me start my 16-week marathon training plan with my goal race being the Cork City marathon on Sunday 31st May 2020. I had already written a plan just before Christmas which would see me running on… Read More »Cork City marathon training – week 1
I am a little late in uploading this post, given that we are now 42 days into the year, however, I have now found the time to get back into regular blogging. The back end of 2019 saw a lot… Read More »2020 preview
Well, what a year! It certainly didn’t end the way that I would ever have imagined, but I am very happy in my life right now. It turns out that my one and only blog post of 2019 was a… Read More »A reflection on 2019
Although this is a preview of my schedule for 2019 to include goals, races and plans, I write this already 3 weeks into the year and having completed two races and so I shall start off by summarising those first… Read More »2019 preview
As we approach the end of the year, it is a good time to reflect on the year which has been and the goals which we set out at the start of the year. Below, I have listed the goals… Read More »A reflection on 2018
It has been well over 5 months since my last update and whilst I was relatively busy training and racing over the early part of the summer this soon came to an abrupt halt with a house move at the… Read More »Training & racing update – 6th October 2018