The idea behind the institution that is now Muddy Saturdays was born in a pub, like so many of the best and worst ideas. Demi and I had called in our local for a nightcap after a night out, when we bumped into a group of our neighbours and hung about a bit. The…
Month: Feb 2016
My role as a Laboratory Mouse (part 1)
The overhaul of my training regime that is taking place over the winter was given extra impetus this week with some help from the clever people at Anglia Ruskin University Sport and Exercise Sciences Research Group in Cambridge, led by Dr Dan Gordon. They are conducting research in the physiology of marathon running (and specifically…
Sisyphus, the hill runner
I have maintained two blogs previously, each covering the time when I was training, running and recovering from two marathon races: Rome (2013) and Athens (2014). Such event-specific blogs are by their very nature limited in scope and duration, but in the process I discovered that I quite liked this whole writing malarkey and that…
Sisyphus AC 