Final two months of a long race year In the first 10 months of the year, if you include parkruns (which I’d ran at race pace), I’d ran 48 races. That’s over one per week! They’d been of varying distance and terrain, which had really helped me stay ‘sharp’ for the big events. I’m not […]
Recap… In my 2022 review parts one (here) and two (here), I’d took you through my gradual progression in the first half of the year – getting stronger, fitter and increasing my endurance levels. In May, I’d belted out a couple of trail races, ran a 10km PB, survived a very testing long training weekend […]
Recap from part one… In my last post here, I told you how 2021 had gone and of my fitness levels entering the new year. I had a few major mazza’s lined up, some time-related targets, I’d joined a running club (Blackburn Road Runners) – most of all I wanted to get more miles in […]
End of the 2022 road running season For many people the autumn big races see the end of their running ‘season’ (if such a thing really exists for non-elite runners…). Whilst we all have a few November and December races lined up, the winter is all about getting a good block of tough training in […]
Old Tram Mile (OTM) Solo Series: July 2020 After the success of our two OTM Solo Series runs (uphill and downhill) in June we went again in July…with a few tweaks… We charged a small fee (£2) to cover our prize costs, Gave folk the option to run a course closer to them over the […]
Old Tram Mile (OTM) Solo Series: June 2020 Following the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and social distancing regulations being brought in, we witnessed mass postponement and cancellation of our favourite (large and small) running events – replaced by a flood of virtual events you could run anywhere and that didn’t motivate some of us […]