Hi Coach, One of the amusing things we (Planman and me) realised early in our running ‘career’ is that when normal (not runners) people ask you about your race, they really don’t want any more than ‘it was good, thanks’. Eyes glaze over and interested smiles become fixed and (if you persist) painful when you […]
Hi Niece! It’s a solemn affair, lining up at the start of a race when you’ve properly tapered according to ‘the book’…no excuses to hide behind if you have a disappointing run. This was supposed to be our real life trial of consecutive week 10k and half-Marathon races to see if it’s really feasible to […]
Hi Niece 😀 You know how people always seem to start races with all their excuses for why they aren’t going to be very good today? Well Uncle Planman and me were trotting along on the ‘easy 2 miles’ start of a ‘hard long run’ today chatting about Paris and I said I thought our […]
Dear Niece One of the rubbish things about losing ground on your fitness is feeling unreasonably tired for an unreasonably long time after a race. No way I’m agreeing it’s old age 😂 Track on Thursday night (4 days after the DUNE HM, big hills, blizzards etc) was an exercise in grim determination, a time […]
Hi Niece They bill this one as DUNE, the Cross Border Half Marathon (no passport required – yet!) and there’s no sand in sight. The name is because it goes to Dundalk (DU) in the south of Ireland from Newry (NE) in the north. It’s always a bit chancy entering races in early February…and sure […]