I had originally planned to spend this weekend over in Ulster running the Newry Marathon for the third year in a row. But a combination of mounting total costs and my
Post-race, with medal.
friend who lives out there being Über-busy meant I ditched the ...
On the rare occasion of a morning off while working in Germany recently I decided I’d take a short drive to the Harz Mountains & have a go at running up the highest mountain I could find – this it turns out would be the mythical Brocken.The summitThe ...
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I cycled the inaugural Great Manchester Cycle on Bank Holiday Monday 4th June.
I had only come across the event after seeing it promoted on Rebecca Romero’s twitter
account so thought I’d do it as training for the Chester Triathlon on 1st July. I...
In the very early hours of the morning on Friday the 8th of June 2012, five intrepid members of Sandbach Striders gathered together at Crewe Railway Station to await
Striders meet previous stager runner Claire at Crewe Railway Station
the arrival of t...
Well done to all 20 runners who participated in last nights relay race.
Grant and Paul receive their prize for a winning relay performance.
The winning team was Paul Barnett, Grant Stanning, Rick Kelso-Davies and Steve Treweeks.
As I am in the NSRRA League, I entered the Westbridge 5 some time ago. On my way there the wind was howling and the rain started to come down heavy. Typical running weather.
There was about 200 runners and as I had never ran this course before I fou...
I first heard about the Wincle Trout Run in February from a member of Congleton Harriers and the thought of it made me smile – I just liked the idea of getting a trout at the end of it.
On the way to the race my car struggled to get up some of the h...
The alarm clock rang on Saturday morning signalling a weekend of very early get-ups. It was 3am and a quick drive down to Luton Airport was ahead of me ready for my 7amflight to Riga. This is all part of the fun when booking budget flights to slightly un...
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"Leadenboots challenge" or "Carry on Through the squeeze style turn right and up the hill."
I make no apologies for the length of this report, it was a long race.
Well where do I start?, the day before I guess, or maybe even longer. A while ago...
Sunday morning dawned and so did the fact that I was about to run my 3rd marathon, even after promising I would never run another marathon again after my dramatic finish to the Crewe déjà-vu. But hey this was London.
Despite my first time ever of pr...
