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A short poem for each of the 12 calendar months to give just a flavour of how running changes as the cycle of the year rolls around.  December There’s no avoiding winter’s chill the damp dark days grow shorter still you dream of longer warmer days and come they surely will….. You have to make… Read more

For a long time, I’ve had the feeling that from a runner’s point of view, every individual month of the year has some special characteristic that makes it that little bit different from each of the others. Quite how to put those sometimes subtle differences into words has previously escaped me. But in an attempt… Read more

Over the past two and a half years, I’ve had a series of running injury problems – hip, pelvis, both knees – which seemed to have put an end to my running days. By early May of this year I had become completely unable to run a step without severe knee pain, so I accepted… Read more

What do you think about when you run? When it comes to thinking on the run, runners tend to fall into one of two camps: ASSOCIATION or DISSOCIATION. In simple terms, association means you are very much focused on the activity of the run, and dissociation means you are (possibly very consciously) allowing your mind to wander… Read more

The first task on the final day is to position the cars, first driving both to the remote finish point up a winding single track lane inland from Abergwyngregyn. Leaving one car there, all five of us then pile into the other car and head back to the day three start point at Glen Dana.… Read more