it ain’t pretty, but…

I could never be bothered shaving on the morning of a race. There doesn’t seem any point making myself presentable. I mean, look at this, from Monday’s run…

No amount of shaving’s going to make that look good! The photographers at SC races normally make a point of looking elsewhere when I approach. I applaud their [...]

10km pb at burnley

I decided last night to run the Sri Chinmoy run at Burnley after eating a million hot cross buns the previous day and consequently feeling fairly flabby and evil.
I made it there by about 7:30, just in time to register, stand in line for 10 minutes for a pre-race bog and then jog up and [...]

bailing on Sri Chinmoy

The last words in my post on Friday were something like this:
“I have hopes of running the Sri Chinmoy 30k at Princess Park on Sunday”
Well, they may have been the last words for the day, but they weren’t exactly the final word on the subject.
As it turns out, I spent the next 24 hours mulling [...]

fatherhood is bad for athletes

You know you’re running a little short of ideas when you start writing blogs about MX magazine, but I’ve never been one to be proud.
Last night they ran a double-page spread on Lleyton Hewitt, suggesting his little girl Mia is responsible for his recent form slump. To which the obvious response is “who cares?” After [...]

new pb

There it is, on the right and down a bit, in ordinary, unpreposessing little white numbers: a new marathon pb. Three little numbers that are the results of 18 weeks solid training and 12 months build-up work.
Is it worth it?
I’m not sure I can say yet. I haven’t really fully taken it all in. I [...]

sadness, delusion, rain

Back in April I wrote a couple of times about Charlton Athletic, and their troubled, troubled times this year. From memory, the words “dire”, “dreadful” and “desperate” featured more strongly than is probably normal, which should give you a fair idea of how the season was going at that point.
Well, after an oh-so-brief revival [...]

training programs

It feels good to have a goal: to be purposeful, direct, hard-working and generally full of the go-getter-spirit.
Em, who I haven’t actually met, seems to have that sort of thing down-pat going by her blog. One look at the slogan at the top of this page should give you a clue this all pretty unfamiliar [...]