Category: Running
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The eve of the Moyathon
Anyone who’s followed my blog over the years will know I like to run a marathon every so often. Okay, so “like” is clearly a not quite the right word, but the fact is it’s happened a few times now since that inaugural effort in 2011. Every so often I…
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A marathon (and a half) for Moya
Hello everyone. For those of you who missed my last post, I’m running the Chester Marathon next weekend. Welcome to No More Marathons™, 2025 edition. What I haven’t mentioned yet though is that I’m running this one (plus the Manchester Half Marathon a week later) for the fantastic St Ann’s Hospice,…
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Triple header
Every so often a certain event – or more pertinently, a series of events – piques my interest. The prospect of a special medal for completing a set is all it takes really, despite the fact I’ve yet to complete any of the ones I’ve started. Or nearly started. Or…
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Missed opportunities: The 2024 Wilmslow Half Marathon
I remember back in September 2020 thinking I was at my running peak after putting in what remains to this day a record-breaking year of running. We were all in the depths of the ol’ pandemic and I didn’t have much else to do other than run pretty much every…
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Muddy Sunday: The 2024 Poynton Village 10k
The Poynton Village 10k was my 29th race at this distance, and I’ve honestly never had one quite like this before. I knew it would be a bit hilly, and it was. I suspected it would be muddy, and it most certainly was that too. But it was a fun…
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Year of the half
Since I decided a few years back that I was gonna try and run all of the World Marathon Majors I’ve been vaguely aware of the marathon times I’d need to run to qualify for them. So far, I’ve hit two of them to get into London and Boston. I’ve…
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Running shoes of the year 2023
Regular readers of this blog have probably picked up on my passion for running shoes. It’s genuinely one of the things that helps to keep me motivated at times and some of my favourite runs ever are the ones where I crack a new pair out the box and let…
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The rest of the year that wasn’t Boston
There’s been a few blogs over the years where I’ve used the phrase “what a difference twelve months makes”. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. It’s a natural yardstick, especially when in cases like these it can show the contrasts between the very highest of the highs, and the very…
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Back on Track: The Standalone 10k 2022
It’s safe to say 2022 has been a bit of a rollercoaster on the old running front. January, good; February, bad March, oddly successful. April, baaaaaaaaaaaaaad. At some point not long after getting back from Portugal though it felt like it had all pretty much come back together. I’m not…
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