Sorrento – Positano “La Panoramica” (27k) – Sunday 2nd December 2018, 9AM – 3.36.37 (Automatic PB) Asics Kayano 20s – Bright and sunny One of the races I have had on my “impossible bucket list” for some time now has been the Big Sur Marathon, a race on the California Coastline heading northbound between Los […]
Read More Coast to Coast – Sorrento Positano 27K- Race review27th Corri alla Garbatella (10K) Sunday 25th November 2018 – 9.30AM – 1.11.46 (PW) – Asics Kayano 20s – Heavy thunderstorms Everyone loves a good underdog story in sports, Rocky vs Apollo Creed in 1976, Leicester City winning the Premier League, the New York Giants vs the 2007 Patriots, the list goes on. What I […]
Read More B@LL$%#t Sunday! – Corri alla Garbatella Race ReviewFiumicino Half Marathon – Sunday 11th November 2018 – 9.30AM – 2.19.37 – Asics Kayano 20s – Bright and Sunny After running the Birmingham Marathon last year, I felt it best to allow my body a month off to recover. I eventually got going again at the Deejay Ten 10k Race in mid-November, and followed […]
Read More Time less – Fiumicino Half Marathon Race ReviewRoma Urbs Mundi (15k) – Sunday 21st October 2018 – 9AM – 1.32.20 (PB I guess…) Asics Kayano 20s – Dry and sunny OK, so I’m not making excuses up front but, 1. My knees still hurt from the Chicago Marathon 2 weeks ago, 2. I’m still recovering from drinking a lot of beer on […]
Read More Back in the City – Roma Urbs Mundi Race Review41st Bank of America Chicago Marathon – Sunday 7th October 2018 – 7.30AM – 4.44.10 (PB) Adidas Ultra Boost Running is probably the least forgiving sport I have ever tried to partake in. Before I started back in 2014, I was of the impression that once you arrive at a certain level of fitness leading […]
Read More Stay the Course – 2018 Bank of America Chicago Marathon Race ReviewReputation had it that this particular expo was extremely efficient and queue free, but arriving on late Friday, or at any point on Saturday would result in a day of lines, so we chose to go earlier on the Friday. We met with my buddy Neil on the Green Line on the Friday morning, arriving […]
Read More Chicago Marathon Expo and Chicago International 5KVia Pacis Half Marathon, Rome, Sunday 23rd September 2018, 9AM, 2.35.59 (gun time) Run as part of 32K training run, 3.47.21, Asics Kayano 20s I was not looking forward to this one. I knew that to stand any chance of testing my marathon PB in Chicago my training would have to have arrived at the […]
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