For many runners, training on a track is something other runners – more talented, more dedicated, more serious runners – do. There is a perception that training on the track is for the elite or for athletes training for track distances. But that should not be the case. We have a few athletics tracks still [...]
Tag Archives: half marathon
Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon – the return of the red squirrel
I am very sorry to report that the post I wrote this morning after the launch of the ballot for the Royal Parks Foundation half marathon and ultra were deleted by the company that hosts this website. I am going to try to rewrite the post but in the mean time, here are the details [...]
St Neots half marathon 2012
There are a few races that feature prominently in the calendar at my running club, the Mornington Chasers. There is the Finchley 20, the Cabbage Patch 10, the London marathon, the club’s 6 race 10km series in Regents Park… and the St Neots half marathon. Until recently I didn’t really understand completely while these races [...]
Competing or completing: does it matter?
I just read an article in a running magazine and one line in it made me feel momentarily sad and frustrated. Then I checked myself. Then I thought I’d write about it anyway. The article was a race report. It was for a half marathon and the writer finished in just under 2hrs 15min. Now [...]
Runner at the Sharp End #3: John Hutchins
I recently met John Hutchins at an event hosted by the team behind the Brighton marathon, which involved a coaching seminar on the Saturday night and a 20km time-trial run on the Sunday morning. John, like many of the amazing runners I met on the weekend, was really friendly and happy to talk to me [...]
The art of pacing
Next weekend I am racing the Wokingham half marathon and I think this is an opportunity to attack my personal best. Apart from the desire that most runners have to log a PB once in a while, I think that running a quick half marathon at this stage will give me great confidence with eight [...]
Runner at the Sharp End #2: Richard Gregory
This is the second in a series of interviews with Runners At The Sharp-end (the R.A.T.S). For an explanation of what I am defining as a runner at the sharp end have a read here. Richard, a member of the famous Ranelagh Harriers, is a fierce competitor, especially in cross-country races and excels at any [...]
The Runners At The Sharp-end (or the RATS!)
Like any athlete at the absolute pinnacle of their sport, elite marathon runners are amazing. As a massive fan of athletics and in particular running and especially marathon running, I love reading about the greatest runners in the world – past and present – or seeing and listening to interviews with them. But I almost [...]
When more is definitely more
This week two things combined to make me think about the benefits of racing in a group, so I thought I’d write a quick post about that very thing. My coach, Nick, often asks me to think about the best runs and/or races I have ever had as part of the process of visualisation that [...]
Is The 50 Greatest Marathon Races Of All Time the single greatest book about marathoning of all time?
I am a self-confessed marathon addict. Sure I have dabbled with shorter distances and indeed I am a big fan of the half marathon distance. I have even tried cycling and triathlons (please forgive me, for I knew not what I was doing). But at the core of my being, sits a love of the [...]
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