20th March, 2017
Some races Susie talks me into are ridiculously hard; some relatively 'easy'. It's the good cop bad cop routine, as used by the Stasi. But in this case even the good cop is peddling a marathon in the Cyprus sun.Some contrast to Haworth last weekend, this! The misty moors and trails to the heat (warmth really; it never was to get completely boiling) of the seaside road course of the Limassol …
14th March, 2017
The longer you race, the more important food becomes and there are some events out there that put on a spectacular feed! I've known runners, mid-race, kept alive only by a trance-like state induced by thoughts of the free cake lying in wait for them at the finish.So I thought I'd present my top 5 and if you're one of these odd people that thinks the food is some kind of a sideshow, an afterthought…
13th March, 2017
I may as well move to Haworth. I now know the bar staff in the Fleece by name. Thus adding the place to a long list of other pubs with a similar thing in common. In common with last year I'm finding it
ridiculously easy to make the effort to get to a race halfway up the
country while having far less interest in putting in a similar run in my
own patch. Even though my own patch is hardly a scrap…
7th March, 2017
London to Paris is fast approaching and free weekends disappearing so I thought I'd make a concerted effort at a long ride last weekend and find somewhere 70-odd miles away and get on the bike. I originally planned to go out and back with an overnight stop and therein found the first battle. It's so much easier to plan runs! But finding a quiet route that you can take a road bike on I have so far …
