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A trilogy in every sense!!! The national three peaks challenge is to climb the highest mountains in each of Scotland (Ben Nevis), England (Sca fell pike) and Wales (Mt Snowdon), with the necessary driving in between as a single event and to complete it within 24 hours. Many people attempt it as part of anContinueContinue reading “on the subject of…..the 3 peaks (part 1)”

Just a brief update on progress towards running the Wealdway at the end of March. After a pretty depressed start to the year, a month ago I had almost given up on the Wealdway plan, and with the first flicker of interest only coming back to me on the last day of January, the pressureContinueContinue reading “Wealdway 2021 – diary notes #2”

If you’re going to compete on a running track as an adult, ideally you need some ability and the courage to expose your abilities in an arena where there’s no place to hide. Whether you race well or are having a nightmare, spectators are witnessing it at close quarters. To do so when you haveContinueContinue reading “on the subject of…..the track”

OK, I admit it. Having sentimental memories about long deceased running shoes is a bit weird, but I bet I’m not alone in looking back over the years and remembering shoes that were just so damned good you wished they’d last forever. When you’re making your decision about your next pair and preparing to handContinueContinue reading “on the subject of…..running shoes – gettin’ sentimental…”

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 immediateContinueContinue reading “on the subject of…..ordnance survey maps”

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 oneContinueContinue reading “Wealdway 2021 – diary notes”

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 consistencyContinueContinue reading “on the subject of…..the countryside”

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 andContinueContinue reading “on the subject of…..a bad patch”

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 goingContinueContinue reading “on the subject of…..a tale of two running gear shops (part two)”

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 aContinueContinue reading “On the subject of…..a tale of two running gear shops (part one)”