Ok, I'm going to be honest with you: training last week was hard. While I'm normally full of energy and over-enthusiastic about pretty much everything, last week was a struggle and I got into, what Scott Jurek would call, a bit of a 'funk'. When I started writing this post I was focusing on all [...]
As Mondays go, today has been pretty good. I have made it tradition to take the first working Monday of the year as holiday to let myself reset and prepare for another year of 'getting stuff done'. I started the day with the long run from my marathon training schedule that I should have done yesterday, but [...]
With just 16 weeks until the Paris Marathon, I've been starting to think seriously about my marathon training schedule. Although I run three or four times a week at the moment, I know that I will need to turn this up a notch if I want to complete the 26 miles that lie ahead. So [...]
While I know that ultimately results come from regular training session and plenty of hard work, I'm still not adverse to hearing about natural solutions that might help boost performance. These are particularly welcome when they include items which might ordinarily be counted as indulgences, such as coffee and dark chocolate! Recent reading has highlighted [...]
A work trip this past week has allowed me to add another city to my 10 city running challenge. I've just returned from seven days in Chicago, where a sales conference was interspersed with incredible art institutions, spectacular views and of course, running. When I arrived and the temperature was down to -7 I strongly [...]
Should you or shouldn't you have sex before a race?
I've been reading a really interesting book this week called 'Nudge' by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, which addresses the way we think about choice and make decisions in our lives relating to health, money and general well being. One of the ideas that it expounds, which I though might interest readers here, is that [...]
I'm not sure how long it's been now since I accepted 'tired' as my default setting. Back in March I wrote about our tendency to be 'tired and wired', and although after that post I made tweaks to my lifestyle for a week or so, I seem to have slipped back into the same pattern [...]
It's funny how some weeks seem to take an eternity, with each day ambling on without haste, while others just race by and before you know it's the weekend again. This week most certainly falls into the latter category. After a week like this, it's nice to take a minute to reflect on the goings [...]
I am now officially a Tough Mudder! Yesterday we ran 12 hilly, muddy miles interspersed with 24 obstacles to cross the TM London South finish line. The day began at 5:00am with a quick shower, cup of tea and a banana before layering and warming up with a 2.5km run to the train station to [...]
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