Do you remember your last hangover? People often describe me as lucky when it comes to hangovers. From memory, I’ve had 3 in my life. No, I’m not against drinking – far from it. I’ve just very rarely got up the next morning and thought ‘I don’t feel...

If running has taught me anything, it’s that I shouldn’t be running, and so training ahead of the London Marathon is clearly counter-intuitive. And given all running gives me is pain, I need to rely on fitness to see me through the 26.2 miles in 4 months time. Fitness, agility,...

It’s not often running 23:14 (my second best time ever) at a parkrun means I only just scrape into the top 200. But then, it’s not often the other parkrunners are the likes of Liz Yelling, Scott Overall, Freya Murray, Andi Jones, James Shane, Joe Thomas, Louise Damen, Amy...

It’s been 5 weeks since I last properly ran a parkrun. Since then I’ve been brutally assaulted on the physio table twice a week, and the closest I’ve come running is throwing in a few cheeky jogs at parkrun while I’m not allowed to properly run. Yesterday I turned up...

In between the cross training and the physio trying to massage the muscle out of my leg, I still need my parkrun fix. I’m not trying to get a good time at the moment, but if there’s one thing I’ve learnt in the last couple of weeks, it’s that I can quite happily go to...

On Friday, the Sports Physio said that, in between him pummelling my shin muscles back into shape, I needed active rest. This basically means, cycling, cross training, swimming…. as much exercise as possible without running. Hmmm… without running. He didn’t specifically rule...

It’s not just that I’m not very good at running. It’s more than that. I just don’t like running. I’m not scared of it, it doesn’t fill me with dread, I just don’t like it. Which may seem strange, because I never seem to shut up about it. And given...

On 2nd October 2004, thirteen people stood on the start line for the first ever inaugural parkrun, or as it was known then, the Bushy Park Time Trials. A little over 8 years later, Bushy parkrun is joined by more than 190 other parkrun events every Saturday, with new ones starting every week....

About 6 months ago, a colleague casually mentioned I should try a parkrun – a free timed 5km run held in around 160 locations across the UK every Saturday. The idea of running at 9am on a Saturday didn’t exactly float my boat, but in October when I found out I’d be running...

Where else would the journey to the Virgin London Marathon start but the waiting room of the X-Ray department at the local hospital? OK, so technically the journey to the marathon started when the magazine popped through the letterbox with the words “CONGRATULATIONS” across the...