Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner

I'm supposed to celebrate today I suppose, though I don't really feel much like celebrating. If I were Grellan I'd go for a rea...

Or maybe stressed? The cold I have acquired at the hospital kept being a very unwelcome reminder of the events from the start of the week....

When you call 999 at 4:45 am, that is never a good sign. Niamh and me found ourselves thrown right into a parents' worst nightmare witho...

I felt a lot better by Thursday morning and by Friday I almost felt like gliding over the asphalt again with very little effort. I kept the ...

I was 10 miles into Monday's run when I hit the wall. The proverbial one, familiar to marathon runners, not a stony one. I was tired, hu...

Spartathlon is your B race? To a 24 hour track event? How is that possible? Anyhow, best of luck with all of those races! The reason why I...

After some fairly brutal training over the last week/weekend, I made sure to take it easy at the start of this week. Monday's run was a ...

While everyone else was busy nursing their hangover, I did what I enjoy the most - running! It might make me odd in the eyes of many people,...

Not me, obviously. I'm slow and old. So old in fact that I can actually remember No Sleep ’til Hammersmith being released. The geek in ...

As promised, I kept the training going over Christmas. I took it slightly easier on Christmas Day with only 8 miles, but the rain was so col...

Well, just in time for Christmas the rain has gotten a lot colder overnight. It feels a lot more wintry now when the gale force wind blows...

We're all getting old eventually and apparently we're increasingly craving creature comforts as we go along. While I'm not qui...

Late November I received an unexpected email: Dear Thomas, Entries for  La Ultra - The High  2016 (7th edition) are now open, ...

The weekend had its challenges, though in actual fact it wasn't as bad as it might have been. For Saturday we had an orange weather aler...

There are some boxes that all need to be ticked before someone can call himself a real runner. That goes from running through all kinds of w...

When MC was coaching me to my first sub-3 marathon, 5 years ago, at some stage during the base building phase I reached a point where runnin...

Since they started to name storms this autumn, nature seems to regard this as a challenge. We've had 4 worthy of their own name already ...

We got a letter from the kids' primary school, warning parents to keep their children at home if they're feeling unwell because of a...

I almost called this entry "Sick and Tired" which would have been somewhat accurate but deemed it too negative. Training for a m...

On Monday morning my first impression was that the legs felt much better than expected after a fairly tough weekend (which seems to be somet...