Running

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A selection of 6 of the most popular posts of all time

1. Advice for London Marathon Runners
2. London Marathon Review
3. The Bad Run
4. 6 Reasons to run an Ultramarathon
5. My first Ultra: The Chiltern Challenge (50k)
6. The Day After the London Marathon

 

On Running

Guest Blogs

• Running Mojo: Making up is hard to do [Runr.co.uk]
• Knowing me, Knowing you #7 [Marathonbore.wordress.com]
• 5 Reasons why Running Buddies are the Best [Domseaseoil.co.uk]
• Finding Your Running Mojo [RunThrough.co.uk]

Reviews, tips and a little advice

Product Reviews

• Karkoa Sports Bag
• Science in Sport

Nutrition

• Fuelling and Nutrition for Runners (Part 1)
• Fuelling and Nutrition for Runners (Part 2)

On Motivation and Training

• Motivation Sucks: How to get your arse out the door
• 6 Tips on putting together a Training Plan
• Running with Back Pain
• Marathon Tapering Tips – Getting to the Start Line

Lessons Learned

• Running a 50k: Lessons Learned

General

• On waiting for the London Marathon ballot results
• On being nominated for Favourite Blog – The Runners’ Awards
• Runner Envy – When the Lurgy Strikes 
• 6 tips for making running stick
• Post-ultra Recovery
• Post-Marathon Lurgy
• Post-Marathon Blues
• Running off Stress: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly 
• Silencing the Blerch 
• 3 tips for responding to the Blerch
  
• When does running get easier?  
• Good times, bad times and a picnic 
• Embracing the Blerch – the runner’s dilemma
  
• Ever heard of this one? The joys of bizarre injuries
• Giving a little something back 
• The injured runner
• All weather running
• Berlin running (no, not the marathon but maybe one day…)

 

Race Reviews

2017

• Trick or Treat Run
• The Cabbage Patch 10
• Ealing Half
• Eridge Park 10
• Thames River Relay
• RunThrough at Hyde Park
• Chiltern Challenge (50k)
• Women Can Marathon (Relay)
• London Marathon Review 
• Grand Union Canal Half
• Lidl Kingston Breakfast Run
• The Original Hampton Court Half
• RunThrough at Battersea Park 

2016

• Where’s the Mud? The Joys of Cross-Country Racing
  

2015

• Tadworth 10
• Paddock Wood

2014

• First Marathon – The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
  

 

Training Diary 2017

Training for my first 50k

• How I think my first ultra will go
• The Taper Grumps
• It’s Taper Time
• Running with Back Pain
• Marathon as Training
• 5 Weeks to 50k
• 6 Weeks to 50k
• Slow and Steady Progress
• Getting into the Groove
• Ultra Training Begins

London Marathon Training – covers the ups and downs of my training for the 2017 London Marathon

• 2 Days to London Marathon       
• Not Long Now!
• 1 Week to London Marathon     
• 2 Weeks to London Marathon
  
• 3 Weeks to London Marathon     
• 4 Weeks to London Marathon 
• 5 Weeks to London Marathon    
• 6 Weeks to London Marathon
• 7 Weeks to London Marathon     
• 8 Weeks to London Marathon
• 9 Weeks to London Marathon     
• 10 Weeks to London Marathon
  
• 11 Weeks to London Marathon
• 12 Weeks to London Marathon 
• 13 Weeks to London Marathon
• 14 Weeks to London Marathon
• 15 Weeks to London Marathon   
• Marathon Training Begins