I met up with Ian (my niece’s husband, does that make me his uncle-in-law?) and we travelled to central London to visit the big Sports Direct and Pro Direct situated there to pick up some bits and bobs – well Ian was,…

Today was race day number 3 in my foolish quest of completing a 10k race once a month for a year. This one was only a short train ride away (I’ve actually walked to this part of London and back many times)…

I stuck to my promise of not running today. I want to give my body time to recover from the shock of what I’m putting it through and I think it was grateful of the rest – not that it had that…

I was disappointed with my final training run before the race on Saturday. I have been putting in regular training sessions, but I can’t seem to motivate myself to run beyond 5km. Recently every time I get to about 2.5km I just…