by Neil | Oct 25, 2017 | Blog
About two years ago I vividly remember Sarah Booker and Susie Chan taking part in a race I’d never heard of called the Autumn 100. It seemed incomprehensible to me at the time. How can you run for 100 miles in one go? More importantly why would anyone want...
by Neil | Aug 3, 2015 | Blog
What a weekend. I’m just going to write out Thunder Run as I think about it now with sore legs, a happy heart and a insatiable appetite. If it doesn’t make sense as a blog it’s because I write these really to remember the event so I can look back...
by Neil | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog
This is a long post about the Manchester marathon last weekend. I’m sorry. Back in 2009 when I signed up to the Paris Marathon running was pretty straightforward. That was time time when every distance was a first, and so it was PB after PB after PB. No having...
by Neil | Jan 12, 2015 | Blog, Marathon
Old Things You can divide my 2014 neatly into two halves. The first half, where I was a runner, doing running things and eating. I trained hard, I got pretty good, I was focused, dedicated and wanted to do it. I ran two marathons, a half ironman, a half marathon and...
by Neil | Nov 20, 2014 | Blog, Spreadsheets
I won’t bore you, everyone knows that core work is important, but not very many people do it. It’s a bit of a pain to organise. I started doing circuits with a guy who was into boxing at work at lunches and was pretty impressed at how much you can do in a...
by Neil | Oct 4, 2014 | Blog
I made this little spreadsheet to help with figuring out what time I would be in certain places on marathon routes but it works for anything now. To use it: Type in the length in miles of the race Type in the best guess for how long it’ll take to cross the start...
