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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

It’s tempting to play this game in the last few days of the year; a look back on what’s just gone and to have a few thoughts about what lies in store in the New Year, but you can be excused from playing it this year if you’re feeling frazzled or fragile!  I’ll keep this… Read more

I’m writing this sitting at my kitchen table, mid-evening, midweek, mid-December, contemplating the fact that I’m running twice tomorrow. The first run will be at around 6.30 am to get to work, then the same route in reverse at about 5.30 pm to get back again. So a big consideration for tomorrow is the weather… Read more