A remarkable thing happened to me on my run tonight: I was out for a short, slow recovery run and was heading out of the village, when I heard birdsong from the hedge next to the footpath. I looked as I ran, and there he was, a little robin sitting on the top of the hedge…
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Asics FuzeX review
Right, so I recently promised to give you my impressions of the new Asics FuzeX, which the good people at Asics Europe were kind enough to send me to review. It only takes opening the box to appreciate that they are a lovely looking shoe, but what are they like to run in? My official…
The return of a Nemesis
I had the day off on Friday, in anticipation of a celebratory weekend away for my wife’s birthday. How better to enjoy a day off at the end of a hard week then, but to go for a nice 36k (~22.5m) run around the Leicestershire countryside! The day had started out quite foggy, to the…
Asics FuzeX review on its way
Look at what the lovely people at Asics UK sent me to review: a brand new pair of fuzeX running shoes! I’ve clocked 22km in them, and have started scribbling my thoughts old school, pen to paper. I’m out again tonight and hope to have a review for you by end of next week. Watch…
My role as a Laboratory Mouse (part 2)
(For the first part of my experience as a laboratory mouse, see this post, which ends at the point where I had received my fitness report from the Anglia Ruskin University Sport and Exercise Sciences Research Group and I was digesting it) The report contained all the promised information, and enough in terms context for me to understand…
Muddy Saturdays
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…
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 