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 …
2012 wasn’t a bad running year. That is a very Scottish way of describing it I suppose. If I was North American I would be whooping it up saying that was a great running year. But I am Scottish, which means that I am of the ilk that says we are a’ Jock Tamson’s bairns; …
December is the month of the Marcothon. The rules of Marcothon are simple: 3 miles or 25 minutes running every day. The runs should really be done outside and the best rule of all -if it feels like cheating it probably is. I really like Marcothon. I like the fact it doesn’t have a sponsor, …
I always think Gluteus Maximus sounds like a Roman Centurion. However, instead of roaming (do you see what I did there – ouch!) I tend to spend most of my day parked on mine in front of a computer screen. I can’t even claim to sit in a posturally correct manner like some middle aged …
Not sure whether I am more scared or excited, but for better or worse I have got myself a place in the West Highland Way Race which starts in Milngavie at 1am on June 22nd 2013. There was a fantastic night on Facebook, Friday past when it became known that the ballot places were being …