A great year with a frustrating end

 2014 has been great, awesome, fantastic, inspiring, fulfilling – in fact it’s possibly been the best one yet in my 42 years on this planet. I’ve not only achieved so much at home and at work, but i’ve also actually enjoyed achieving this – i know so many high achievers who achieve great things at…

2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,100 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 35 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…

My first “did not finish”

Last Saturday i turned up in London at 8am, cold, tired, and carrying an injury to take part in my second Ultra marathon – a 50km race along the Thames. Leading up to this i was in a dilemma, i was carrying an injury which caused me a lot of pain, but i had also…

Hayling 10 mile race

Last weekend I completed my latest race, a short 10 miler almost on my doorstep. Given so many other races have involved a reasonable amount of travel, and also were longer distances, i approached this race with complacency – big mistake !

Preparing for my next race – 10 miles on Sunday

Time has flown past since my last race, so much so that my legs feel like they haven’t quite recovered, but this Sunday i have the chance to run a local 10 miler on Hayling Island – i’m looking at it as a replacement for the usual longer weekend run.

Stort30 – Do something extra-ordinary

5 weeks ago i was planning my first marathon, the Farnham Pilgrim trail race, which i completed in 3hr51min. I suffered a lot on this, was under-prepared for the step up from half marathons, under-estimated pre-race and during race nutrition, and suffered (as many others do) from cramps (i should have anticipated this before, i get them…

“Start acting like a child”

Been a little while since i updated my blog, i’m being selfish as i’ve had so much going on at work, so much outside of work, and lots going on in my head. I’m not on vacation for a week so the first excuse is dying off, the others are still there, so here’s a…

Journeys, goals, waiting and patience

So this week i’ve been in Zurich, Switzerland, working – stuck in what used to be a mental institution running a workshop with a group of really positive minded people.  The issue we were trying to improve has been around for ages so i kept repeating the word “improve” and ensured i steered away from…

It only takes 52,000 steps

I believe anyone can complete a marathon, all you need to do is to be able to put one foot in front of the other, and repeat around 52,000 times.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today

This year i ran my first 5k, 10 mile, 13 mile, and 26 mile races, this was still not enough (enough for what ? I do not know).  So to continue finding the what ? I had plans to move up to ultra marathon distance next year, The problem is that the future is so…