Brighton 10k race report This has been the target race for the last half a year, in my ongoing experiment with the FIRST schedules. Training went very well – it’s definitely easier running the fast interval paces and tempo paces now than it was in the...

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Before my 10k road race, what better way to prepare than with a long hilly run on trails? So Sunday’s run was the small matter of a drive out to the Brecon Beacons, Upper Neuadd Reservoir to be exact, and a circular run round the tops of Corn Du and...

Continuing my reading of tales of terror and Gothic fiction generally, I just stumbled through Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary. Here are a few favourite entries: OVERWORK, n. A dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go...

It must be time for a bit of a running update, as my 2009 target race approaches. It seems wierd targetting a 10k, such a small distance! But the challenge is to run it at approximately 6:05 minutes per mile and knock a good minute off my PB from...