Category Archives: Janathon

Oh My Obelisk, take two

During Janathon last year I ran this mostly off-road 11 miles ish run, you can read about it here, I ran it then as a training run for The Grizzly. After completion I said I wanted to do it again but … Continue reading

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Saturday

The great thing about  January the 31st being on a Saturday is that the exercise for the last day is sorted and so is the blog. The bad thing about January the 31st being on a Saturday is that Sunday … Continue reading

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Don’t judge a book by its cover

Usually when I go away with work I stay in Travelodge, Premier Inn or Holiday Inn, nothing fancy, not luxurious or extravagant. I was very excited to see that this weeks stay was somewhere new and even more excited once … Continue reading

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Catch up

Wednesday night our running club joined another local club for their club night. It was quite interesting to see the way they do things, you would think it would similar to ours, but no actually very different. They did warm … Continue reading

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The past and the future

The Past A 7 mile cycle on the exercise bike this morning. The Future Tonight the running club is being hosted by another club for our Wednesday night session. Seeing as I love to run somewhere new I will definitely … Continue reading

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Some advice

Dear teenagers or soon to be teenagers, Some advice for you :- computers  are like Mums they are NEVER wrong When entering password on a computer Don’t enter the same details over and over this will not make it work Sighing? … Continue reading

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Double Runs

Its the way forward, I am telling you, scrap the fartlek, the tempos, hill training, long runs, intervals, yes scrap all that, it’s all about the double runs, you heard it here first. At lunch time I did a nice … Continue reading

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Yesterday

Yesterday I did The Beast, this is the winter cousin of the Beauty I did last June. (you can read about that here) The idea is the same :- self navigation, hills, pub stops, social run, no timing involved, mud … Continue reading

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The Beast

Today I ran 16 miles across Devon countryside, up and down hills, through thick mud. I am truly knackered, tune back tomorrow, when you might get a more interesting blog, with photos. Now it’s bed time, zzzzzzz and no not … Continue reading

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Strange Goings On

After ordering our meals at the pub run last night, I popped for the obligatory comfort break. Unfortunately whilst in there one of the head torches fell out of my pocket, on making contact with the floor it scattered in … Continue reading

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