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How to Make Getting Up For Morning Miles Easier

How to Make Getting Up For Morning Miles Easier

If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse.  My running is really important to me right now, I'm training to run a PB in London, and a BQ in the next few cycles (although I'm not working in cycles anymore but this is the easiest way...

Got a Charity Place in the London Marathon?

Got a Charity Place in the London Marathon?

This post is in partnership by BT MyDonate - however as part of it I am going to give £100 of my fee to one of your charities, and help you enter the 'Donation Doubler' - all you have to do to be in with chance of winning is to tell me why you'd like to raise funds...

3 Week Running Fitness Challenge

3 Week Running Fitness Challenge

I run to eat. I'm one of those people that push through hard training workouts and races by thinking about what I'm going to eat and drink when I reach the finish. After the Chicago marathon I headed straight to Shake Shack for salty french fries, at the end of the...

To Hoka Or Not To Hoka

This post contains affiliate links - this doesn't cost you any extra on your purchase. Find out more here. Just like Vibrams did a few years ago, Hoka's are dividing opinion within the running world. There are the die hard fans, (including the man who ran up to me on...

New Year, New Plan

New Year, New Plan

New year, new you? I used to work on a weight loss platform called New Me, it was an online forum providing recipes, workouts and a diet plan for realistic, healthy weight loss. Good concept, horrible messaging. Why do you need a new you? I bet the old you is pretty...

How to Become a Six Star Finisher: Running The World Marathon Majors

How to Become a Six Star Finisher: Running The World Marathon Majors

Ticking all six marathon majors off my bucket list has been a goal of mine for nearly five years, and not only running them all, but completing them before I'm 30. For those not quite as marathon obsessed as I am, the Big Six are; Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, New...

3 Week Running Fitness Challenge

3 Week Running Fitness Challenge

I run to eat. I'm one of those people that push through hard training workouts and races by thinking about what I'm going to eat and drink when I reach the finish. After the Chicago marathon I headed straight to Shake Shack for salty french fries, at the end of the...

How to Improve Your Running: Stop Thinking in Training Cycles

How to Improve Your Running: Stop Thinking in Training Cycles

How often do you sign up for a race and set yourself a two, three, four month training plan? You turn up to race day having followed the weekly tempo, speed, long runs (or not), race then recover. You then pick another race, and start all over again. Perhaps you gave...

To Hoka Or Not To Hoka

This post contains affiliate links - this doesn't cost you any extra on your purchase. Find out more here. Just like Vibrams did a few years ago, Hoka's are dividing opinion within the running world. There are the die hard fans, (including the man who ran up to me on...