I love a big London race, where they close down the roads, and you get all the atmosphere, bands, crowds, noise, charities, big finish – it’s just pretty special. So I’ve only done 10km races in London, and since last year, I’ve been secretly wanting to do The Big Half. This year I didn’t sign up, simply because of the expense. I’ve already spent quite … Continue reading Race Review: The Big Half
Around these parts (Teddington/Twickenham/Kingston – just outside of London) if you tell people that you are doing the Hampton Court Half Marathon, they will say, the February one or the March one. Then conspiratorially with a smirk they may add, the ‘original one’? You see there are two Hampton Court Half marathons, and each year they go into proverbial marketing battle over which one is … Continue reading Race Review: Hampton Court Half Marathon
When one race finishes, the hunt for another race starts, cause once you have caught the running bug, you’ve caught it. After the RunThrough UK Wimbledon Common Half Marathon (read my race recap here) I was looking for something flat, close to home, and that I’d not done before. I came across the River Thames Half Marathon, organised by River Thames Running. The time was … Continue reading Race Review: River Thames Half Marathon
I get stressed out when I have a running training plan to follow, as undoubtedly, something will come up – to interrupt said plan. I mean in theory, it should calm me down, knowing what I need to do – how much to run and when, but it doesn’t. I’ve read a lot of articles about runners benefiting from performance gains when their plan is … Continue reading I don’t have a plan
I’ve never done a RunThroughUK race yet, but they have lots of them organised in my local area and I’ve been tempted. They seemed like a professional organisation, with a good website, an interesting selection of events. When looking for a summer half marathon, I found the Wimbledon Common Half Marathon on the 5th of August. 3 things made me book: Sunday is Runday: Being … Continue reading Race Report: Wimbledon Half Marathon
The time has flown, and the plan that I roughly wrote for myself, has roughly been followed. The RunThrough Wimbledon half marathon is this Sunday. I have not had a race go ‘well’ yet in 2018 (all two of them) – but I’d really like to go sub 1:50 this time at my 4th ever half marathon. I hate to put this hope out there … Continue reading Will this be the half?
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