Total Training km’s – 203 (126 Miles) After a bit off faff, I finally got me new shoes this week, but due to circumstances out of my control, ie: trying on running shoes with ski socks on, resulting in the wrong size and needing to take them back, I continued to run in the Asics for the [...]

Total Training km’s – 183 (113 Miles) Wow, what a week. I won’t arse about with stories of dog poop this week, lets talk running… So, up ’til now I’ve be training barefoot. Not actual barefoot, but in the Vibram 5 Finger shoes. It’s barefoot, but with shoes. You following? Running in the Vibrams is [...]

*Total km’s for January – 147* Hello February, you came along quickly. As I said in last weeks blog, it’s time to up my miles and work on my pace this month. Here’s how I set about it… 31st Jan: 10.19km in 1:04:15 – Nice little run this one, an ok pace, but not good [...]

I’m not being funny, but is there more dog poop lining the streets these days? I remember it when I was a lad but sometime in the past it disappeared. Our streets were free from it, due to the threat of fines from usually annoying, but in this case welcome funktards in high-vis jackets with [...]

  I won’t lie to you, the last seven days will not appear in any marathon training plan you’ll find on the internet. Despite my best intentions,  I did more thinking about running  than actual running. My bad. I did however run, and here’s how it went… 17th Jan: 5.16km in 33:56 – pretty average pace [...]