With just over a week until my next half marathon and only a little over a month until Tough Mudder I'm starting to get the usual pre-event anxiety. While I enter races totally for my own enjoyment and with no real pressure to get times or places, (in contrast to the swimming competitions of my [...]
Last week was my birthday. This year, somehow, from not having organised any festivities and being consumed by the usual denial and panic of yet another year passing with terrifying rapidity, I seem to have experienced the best birthday on record. It began the Tuesday before with a night of fizz and gossip with one [...]
As with my last post I'd like to preface the below with a caveat: I've been doing rather too much thinking and reading this week and as a result the following post could border on the indulgent (even more so than usual), tenuous and/or nonsensical. With that in mind, let's begin. On Wednesday I attended a [...]
There are weeks when I have a clear idea of what I want to write; when the topic is inspired by an event or conversation during my week and the post is focused with a clear thread, (or at least I hope this to be the case). And then there are other weeks when my [...]
There is a slightly irrational part of me that clings to the notion that fitness is a cumulative process, irrespective of periods of rest or injury. I want to believe that somehow our fitness levels go on hold during these stretches of inactivity; that they are suspended while our bones heal and our ligaments and [...]
I'm fast subscribing to the belief that to see any city properly you have to run in it. Running closes up the distances between landmarks, reveals new and interesting vistas and helps you to orientate yourself, (albeit, in my case, more often than not through the act of first getting lost). Seeing other runners on [...]
Amen to that. After three weeks of carbs and cocktails in New York, combined with injury imposed rest, I'm finally getting back into my usual diet and fitness routine. I can tell that I've had a break (and maybe one bagel too many) by the little mound that has developed around my tummy and by the [...]
It seems strange to be writing about a British institution while in Manhattan, but stay with me on this and I promise it will come together. On the Saturday before I came out to the US I opted for a quintessentially English day with a trip to Wimbledon. It was Ladies' Finals Day so my [...]
Just this time last week I was en route to the US, full of nervous excitement having never before set foot on American soil. It seems like a lifetime ago now and I can't actually believe that only seven days have passed. I arrived at midday US time (5pm UK time) and made my way [...]
This week I put my traditional trainers back on. That's not to say I'm giving up on my Vibrams altogether, but while I'm trying to resolve the issues with my foot I'm regarding it as a necessary compromise, at least for now. It was a strange, but not altogether unpleasant, sensation wearing trad trainers again. [...]
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