This race is one of my favourites – you could say it was made for me. I run, I love music, I love Liverpool and your race number includes a beer ticket – what more could you want? I was taking part for the fourth year running. The Rock ‘n’ Roll series is a whole …
As soon as I saw the date of Manchester marathon I had to enter – it was on my birthday and what better way of celebrating than running 26.2 miles with 15,000 other people. I guess it could be a case of third time lucky with this race. I first ran it in 2016, I …
The Virgin London Marathon ballot was drawn this week. As predicted it was a no for me – I really wish I had the same luck predicting lottery numbers. A record 386,050 people applied this year for the 17,000 (ish) places which made it a 1 in 23 chance of being accepted. If, like me, …
Running is a cheap way of keeping fit, all you need to run are a pair of trainers, right? That may be true for the casual runner – marathon running can be an expensive hobby. Don’t get me wrong, running requires no monthly membership or any equipment like golf clubs. But there is a lot more financial …
Where do I start with this one? I was PB chasing on this one. The timings I had run in training had me at an estimated 4.17 – I was hoping for 4.20-4.25 time or just to beat my previous time of 4.29. And then I got ill during the taper – see here. Annoyed …
