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Breaking the no gym rule

For years I kept to an unwritten rule of never joining a gym. Circumstances forced me to revisit that

Posted on June 21, 2017

How to run back-to-back marathons (part 2)

Putting the theory to the test - how I got on following the advice about how to run two marathons in a few weeks

Posted on May 1, 2017

How to run back-to-back marathons (part 1)

Preparing for a marathon is a risky affair. You invest so much time in the training, and it all has to come together on one particular morning. So what to do about this risk?

Posted on April 13, 2017

A tale of two marathons

This year I completed my second marathon, the Thames Meander, almost a year to the day after the first in Barcelona. Comparing the two, the training experience was similar but the race experience starkly different

Posted on March 31, 2017

What is cross-training?

Like some running version of Godwin's law, the more running articles you read the more inevitable it becomes that someone, somewhere will pop up and recommend cross-training

Posted on March 3, 2017