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Last week I was trying to persuade you to get out into the countryside. If you are feeling tempted, but aren’t too familiar with what lies the other side of the hedgerow then the best idea is to pick up a copy of the Ordnance Survey map from the Explorer series, which covers your immediate Read more

Sometime during 2020 the idea came to me to have some sort of revisit of my 1986 running the Wealdway end to end. I’m certain I don’t have the physical capability and definitely don’t have the inclination to put in the sort of mileage preparation that would be needed to tackle it as a one Read more

Running doesn’t all have to be about “training”. And it definitely doesn’t all have to be on the road. The countryside is where much more fun can happen. Road and pavement is the right environment for when your session involves the need for outright speed or a quick tempo training run, as it gives consistency Read more

You’ll be very lucky if as a runner, you don’t go through the occasional bad patch. I hadn’t planned for this week’s post to be on that subject, but as I suddenly find myself struggling, with every run being slow, laboured and difficult, it feels like the right moment to consider why it happens and Read more

Up and Running Great name. And back then still pretty original. My reasoning behind setting up my version of the early sweatshop was (1) There was an untapped demand for such a shop in West Kent (2) It would happen sooner or later anyway, and if anyone was going to do it, it was going Read more

The Sweatshop Olympic gold medalist and founder of the London Marathon, Chris Brasher was ahead of the curve in the late 1970s. He had opened a sports shop a few years earlier, but perhaps anticipating the running boom, it had become focused almost entirely on running gear. The first London Marathon in 1981 was a Read more