This week was hill week and a good training week it has been. A brisk fartlek on Monday, Tuesday was a mega session of Hill Reps which left me walking like John Wayne for the rest of the week. My poor adductors are still complaining. Wednesday was a hilly wee run. Thursday was a brutal …
Month: January 2013
This picture shows my gear from my treadmill session at the gym tonight. Nothing too unusual in anything in the picture. But there are a few stories to be told. Lets start at the bottom: The Shoes Brooks Racer ST5. I wore these shoes as I walked to work this morning. Probably one of the …
I have run quite a few marathons in my relatively short running career. It is my favourite distance because it is almost the perfect challenge, long enough to really stress your body but still short enough that you can try to run fast. If there is one thing that running more than 25 marathons has …
Pure Grit are part of Brooks Pure Project range. These are probably the most comfortable running shoes I have ever had. If they matched my suit I would wear them to work. There is something very natural about the way the front of the shoe is shaped. The Toe box feels wide and low, and …
WHW run Saturday 12th January. Dumgoyne to Conic Hill to Dumgoyne. 22.5 miles Helen and I parked up in the lay by next to the Glengoyne Distillery, because we were too early to get parked at the Beech Tree Inn. I used to park here regularly in the days when I lived in Glasgow and …
Sunday brough my first run on the West Highland Way of the year. A straightforward run out and back from Rowardennan to Inversnaid. Weather conditions started off perfectly but then turned to dreich smirry rain by the time I reached the hotel at Inversnaid. I had it in my head this was a fairly straightforward …
As a child I used to read voraciously. During the summer holidays it wasn’t unusual for me to make 2 visits to Alloa library in the one day, taking my limit of 3 books each time. I would read anything and everything. When I started at secondary school and discovered the joys of rugby I …