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A blog about getting off the sofa and running a sub-4 hour marathon. The next chapter involves an Ironaman triathlon.

Race report: Nice Tri Sprint Triathlon St Neots

It's 5:30am on a Sunday morning. I've got a number scrawled on my hand and a bad feeling in my stomach. It's just like the good old days. Except I'm getting up instead of going to bed and the...

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Facing my triathlon fears

In the theatre world they have a saying: Bad dress rehersal, good opening night. For a while I was taking solace in this saying, reassuring myself that my triathlon 'opening night' would go without...

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How to win the London Marathon (at 400m)

On the Sunday of the London Marathon I cheered from the sidelines for a few hours then went home and watched the recorded coverage. At the men's start some chancer flew off the start line to try...

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Open water swimming at Bray Lake

"The lake is open but likely to be a bit choppy. It'll be fine but just to warn you - good race practice!" came the text message on Thursday morning. I checked the weather forecast for the evening...

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Swimming in the Hampstead Ponds

The last time I went swimming in open water was in a river in Cambodia. I learnt an important swimming lesson that day: keep your mouth shut. I spent the following day sat on a chair half way...

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The road to Manchester Marathon

I stared at the clock on the wall above the door to the operating theatre and watched the second hand tick round. "Breath deeply and count backwards from 10." "10, 9, 8, 7...." I was gone. The...

May 1, 2013 Like 2 people like this

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Race Report: Greater Manchester Marathon

At 8:56 on Sunday morning, I was sprinting up a duel carriageway with my friend Liz to get to the start of the Greater Manchester Marathon. We joked that in a few hours we'd have technically run an...

Apr 30, 2013 Like 3 people like this

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Things I'm doing this week

With just days to go until marathon number six, taper madness has fully set in. This week it's manifesting itself in the following behaviour. Filling every available weekend until October with a...

Apr 25, 2013 Like 2 people like this

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Spectating a marathon

If you've never stood by the side of a marathon and clapped and cheered as runners made their way past, you really should. There's two kinds of reaction that you can have standing up close and...

Apr 22, 2013 Like 3 people like this

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The marathon leap of faith

26.2 miles is a long way to run. For first-time marathon runners, when you line up at the start the most you'll have ever run before is probably 18 or maybe 20 miles. You'll wonder whether you can...

Apr 17, 2013 Like 4 people like this

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Training for marathon number six

Remember when, three weeks before Edinburgh Marathon I pulled my Achilles? And how in the run up to Venice Marathon I strained my groin then fell off my bike and landed on my knee? As well as how I...

Apr 10, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Guest Post: Tuning in to Radio Runner

Guest post by Phil who is preparing for his first marathon in his home town of Manchester this April. I was cruising at eleven miles when I tripped over the dog. I had observed it chasing a ball to...

Apr 9, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Cycling up a learning curve

Bikes are great aren't they? You don't need a ticket or to wait for one that's going in your direction to come along, you just jump on one, pedal like mad and, as if by magic, you arrive at your...

Apr 5, 2013 Like 2 people like this

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Guest post: Confessions of an anarchic runner

As the countdown to to Manchester Marathon begins, I've roped in a couple of other runners who are doing the race to share the ups and downs of their training. First up is first-time marathoner...

Apr 2, 2013 Like 3 people like this

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Back at the track

CreditConfession: until yesterday I had only done one track session and that was more than two years ago. It left me with such bad DOMS that I've been put off ever since. That's not to say that my...

Mar 20, 2013 Like 2 people like this

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Cleaning my bike

The other year this blog was shortlisted for Cosmopolitan magazine's blog awards. I went to the awards party in a bar in Soho, drank a lot of cocktails (Cosmopolitans obviously) and didn't win. I...

Mar 18, 2013 Like

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Just keep swimming

Running and, more recently, swimming have shown me time and again that things I thought I couldn't do are actually within reach. Running a marathon was something I though was impossible for me. Now...

Mar 8, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Is cycling in London dangerous?

There's a pothole on my cycle home that's trying to kill me. Every evening, just after I've passed King's Cross and breathed a sigh of relief that the madness of central London traffic is behind...

Mar 5, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Kit review: adidas Boost

adidas hadn't exactly been shy about how good they think this product is. For weeks they'd told us to expect a shoe that would 'revolutionise running'. That's some big talk right there. Then at the...

Feb 28, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Nike Flyknit Experience at Somerset House

Next week, Nike are inviting runners down to Somerset House in London to try out their new Flyknit trainers which they promise will fit your feet perfectly. Nike say: "The unique Nike Flyknit...

Feb 27, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Don't try this at home

Balancing training and a social life is something I've never got quite right. I've either cut myself off and become a social recluse while I clock up the last months of marathon training, over...

Feb 26, 2013 Like

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Rubbing it in

I see myself as somewhat of a connoisseur when it comes to massage. I've had massages all over the world. I've been rubbed down by a blind man in Cambodia, by an inmate at a women's prison in...

Feb 18, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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The hard miles of marathon training

Marathon training is hard. This is something I realise as soon as I start training for one of these things and then immediately forget as soon as I cross the finish line. On Saturday I spent the...

Feb 14, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Win two places at the Rock 'n' Roll Edinburgh Half Marathon

I've got two spots at the Rock 'n' Roll Edinburgh Half Marathon to give away - that's one for you and one for a friend. If you want one - put your name in the comments or tweet me 'I want to win'...

Feb 13, 2013 Like 3 people like this

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The language of running

Around mile seven of last weekend's long run two guys crossed the road in front of me and headed towards Finsbury Park. As they crossed one looked at me and then said to the other: "Where do you go...

Feb 5, 2013 Like 3 people like this

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Tevasphere shoes and getting lost on Hampstead Heath

By way of a what I like to think was a 'welcome to the neighbourhood' the people at Teva invited me for a run with them on Hampstead Heath to celebrate, not actually my moving in round the corner,...

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One last hurrah

After a Christmas spent either ill or nursing injuries and hangovers, the start to the latest marathon campaign was off to a rocky start and those lofty goals for 2013 looked under treat before I'd...

Jan 28, 2013 Like

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10 Tip for Beginner Runners

A while back I was asked for my tips for beginner runner on how to go from unfit to marathon badass. Then the piece got spiked, so rather than leave them gathering dust on my hard drive I thought...

Jan 25, 2013 Like 5 people like this

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The secrets of interval training

There's a lampost by Blackfriars Bridge that is half a mile, or roughly 800m, from Waterloo Bridge. And there's a stretch of Tuffnell Park Road that provides a good 400m straight between side...

Jan 23, 2013 Like 4 people like this

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Race report: Nice Tri Sprint Triathlon St Neots

Facing my triathlon fears

How to win the London Marathon (at 400m)

Open water swimming at Bray Lake

Swimming in the Hampstead Ponds

The road to Manchester Marathon

Race Report: Greater Manchester Marathon

Things I'm doing this week

Spectating a marathon

The marathon leap of faith

Training for marathon number six

Guest Post: Tuning in to Radio Runner

Cycling up a learning curve

Guest post: Confessions of an anarchic runner

Back at the track

Cleaning my bike

Just keep swimming

Is cycling in London dangerous?

Kit review: adidas Boost

Nike Flyknit Experience at Somerset House

Don't try this at home

Rubbing it in

The hard miles of marathon training

Win two places at the Rock 'n' Roll Edinburgh Half Marathon

The language of running

Tevasphere shoes and getting lost on Hampstead Heath

One last hurrah

10 Tip for Beginner Runners

The secrets of interval training

The geography of training

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