This was an amazing weekend for the running folk – at the Vienna Marathon on Saturday, Eliud Kipchoge became the first man to run a marathon in under 2 hours (1:59:40). The next day, at the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, Brigid Kosgei would break Paula Radcliffe’s record and run a 2:14:04 marathon. Also in Chicago, I would be happy to see […]
When someone told me that I’ll run my second half marathon (way) faster than I ran my first one, I didn’t quite believe that that was possible. But it did stick and it was something I thought about later. I decided I would keep on running in 2019 because I love it and because I am now fitter and healthier […]
You know how people, and maybe even you, say… “I’ll one day do… [fill in the blanks]”? That’s kind of how I’ve set the goal of running a half-marathon in 2018, knowing that the number of days in a year are counted, and yet thinking that that day will never come. Then I sat down and picked a race… one […]
“Rather than gracefully handing over a little more authority to the generations destined to live with their mistakes the longest, the folks who have already over-cooked the future continue to run the show a) in their own interests and b) badly.” – Sam Conniff Allende Two pages in and this book, seemingly about pirates, was already having me nod in approval. […]
Run, run, run! I’ve clocked in 70k this month (up from 44k), which I am utterly proud about. Also, at the beginning of the month I’ve managed a new PB at the Regent’s Park 10k Summer Series, only to comfortably beat that at the end of the month, while snapping loads of photos in Oradea, Romania – see the video […]
If your life would be turned into a movie, what would the highlight of the movie be? And if you were at the cinema, a person in the audience, what would you think of yourself and your story? Take a bit of time to reflect before going further… Do jot some ideas down… Now, if you could be anyone you […]
