Early in my running career (I think I'd done the Reading half-marathon once, perhaps twice), I entered the Flora London Marathon and got in on the ballot. It was a gruelling experience, I remember the wall at 18 miles and grabbing a fistful of jelly babies from a child as the hunger set in. 4h13 … Continue reading London Marathon 2022 →

I was a late starter with running. or indeed any proper exercise. When I started at Sema Group in 1998, there were a few graduates who'd joined at a similar time. The key thing was the office was very close to the Thames in Reading and there was a lad who was training to do … Continue reading Running Memories →

My running goal for 2021 had started out as 1000km, building on the 500 miles (800km) of 2020. Aiming for ~20km a week went fine - 2 runs home from school a week, plus a longer one on Sunday, I started doing around 100km a month, so upped my goal to a spicier 1200km for … Continue reading Running 2021 – Final Tally →

Pretty much every sports-type gathering has been cancelled for the last 12 months, certainly running events have been completely clobbered. The London Marathon took place in October (rather than April) as an Elite-only event. I'd entered the Royal Parks Half-Marathon a long time ago and of course that changed from a "hopefully in October thing … Continue reading Royal Parks Half-Marathon →

Right at the start of the year, in another world, another time, I started my goal of running 500 miles over the course of the next 12 months. I got off to a great start, and Q2 was good too (running was not curtailed during Lockdown, after all), but I had a couple of wobbles … Continue reading 2020 Running Goal – completed! →

I'm woefully behind blog updates, so need to catch up before things get out of hand. At the least, I'm pleased to report that I'm up to date with running against the 500 mile goal for the year. Every proper run I've done has been tracked in runkeeper, and the scores are: January 52.6 miles … Continue reading Running Update for March →

I ran inconsistently in 2019, and 2018 come to that. Around 220 miles each year. I reckon I can knock that up a notch in 2020 and intend to get 500 miles squared away, i.e. 10 miles a week or so, or 1.5 miles per day on average. I certainly won't video or chronicle most … Continue reading 500 miles…starts now →