How far did I run in 2023?
2023 was the first year since 2018 when I didn’t train for a marathon. I ran marathons in 2019, 2021 and 2022 and got two-thirds…
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Half marathon history: Times change
I recently ran Weston Super Half. It was my 25th half marathon – my first was way back in 1995 – and I got my…
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My half marathon history
I recently ran Cheltenham half marathon for the eighth time. It was the 22nd half marathon I’d run in total, going all the way back…
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2019: That was the year that was
2019 was another busy year for us. Isn’t every year busy when you have kids? This is our 2019… January started with a double parkrun…
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Twenty-five years of running
I started running 25 years ago. I went for my first run just before my 21st birthday. I’m going to be 46 soon, so that…
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Addicted to races
There are plenty of runners out there who run a couple of marathons every year, five or six half marathons and a load of 10ks….
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How far did I run in 2018?
In 2018, I ran further than ever. It was the first year I’d run three half marathons – Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and Stroud. I got PBs…
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2018 – That was the year that was
2018 has been another busy year for us, day-to-day. There’s very rarely a day where I’m not rushing around somewhere after school. But it has…
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Two half marathons in a month: Tapering to recovery and back
My training for the Stroud half marathon is a bit different to my training for the Cheltenham half or the Tewkesbury half. That’s because Stroud…
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How my half marathon times have improved in over 20 years of running
When I ran the Tewkesbury half marathon last month, it was my 12th half marathon. I thought it would be interesting to look back on how…
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Running for pleasure
It may you surprise you, because I run half marathons and love parkrun, that I don’t run for competition or medals, I run for pleasure….
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How far did I run in 2017?
At the start of 2016, I started writing down all of my runs to see how far I ran in a year. I just wrote…
