Sometimes things don’t work out as planned. And sometimes that’s okay. Last weekend I should have been running the Berlin Marathon, alongside Bekele. I mean, not literally alongside. On my best day I couldn’t even enjoy the breeze he leaves in his wake. Instead, I spent it enjoying the uncharacteristically warm and dry weather in …
The goals for 2019 have not panned out as I planned. My aim for my running life was to look more to trails and ultra-running, although I did know marathons were still going to play a part. I had no plans for a spring marathon as the Glen Lyon Ultra was my main race. This …
When I started running two and a half years ago, I just thought of it as a nice social form of exercise. I liked that it was easy to measure performance, and that I seemed to be making good progress at it. If anyone had told me I would end up running marathons, and even …
I had been saying to myself for a while that I really needed to push myself further after about 3 years of staying at half marathon distance and just generally plodding about in training to try and keep the weight off from my shocking diet habits! Since the beginning of 2018 I had started to …
Although I’ve been playing football for a number of years, I only really starting running properly (rather than for football training) this year. I had done Montrose Parkrun a few times, entered a few 10km races, a few half marathon races (including the Dundee Half DRAM where I was the first BRR member home despite …
The Loch Ness marathon was a bit of an afterthought on my race calendar. After struggling the last few miles at the Stirling Marathon, I wondered if my Edinburgh Ultra run in October might be a bit ambitious. One way to know for sure was to sign up for a long-distance event a short while …
If I had to sum up this experience in one word, it would be phenomenal. That covers the effort involved to get race ready (which I covered in this previous post), the scenery along most of the route, the hospitality shown by Inverness for the Festival, the running community in general, and my experience of …
Never has a race so completely dominated my life for months as this one did. I’d done two 10ks, a couple of 10 milers, and plenty of 5ks, but at the time I signed up for Loch Ness Marathon, on 11th June, I’d not even run a half marathon as I’d had to withdraw from …
The Stirling Marathon has been looming on my race calendar since late October last year, having just completed the Yorkshire Marathon and realising my hopes of an Ultra Tour of Arran were unfeasible until I had a bit more marathon experience. So naturally, I signed up for Stirling… aaaand the Ultra Tour of Edinburgh, a …