It’s been suspected for a while that stretching before activity could be a waste of time, and I tend to recommend that people stretch regularly throughout the day, and after exercise rather than before. I personally believe that the best type of warm up is doing at a very low level the activity you are…
Just gave a talk to a group of ultra runners at an event organised by Simon and Julie at Freestak and Torq, at the Parliament Hill Lido in Hampstead, London, a stone’s throw away from Chetwynd Road. Thanks Simon and Julie for a well organised day! Here’s a summary of the points I made in…
If, like me, you’re old enough to remember that God forsaken song by Chicago of the same name, then my attempt at lowering the age of my target audience is failing dismally! Ah well, I guess I should just concentrate more on blogging about health than worrying about my age… A recent article in the…
Thursday 19 July was the date… after a couple of months’ of (hardly!) training, I was let loose like a wild stallion on a unicycle up the 800m climb to the summit. My race number was 12, which represented the maximum age that one should really be allowed to unicycle… not for grown men really….
Today I started training for the Urban Hill Climb, an 800m cycling time trial race up the steepest public road in London, Swains Lane in Highgate. I’m attempting to do it on a unicycle, which is probably completely mad, but I thought it would be an interesting thing to do, and a good way to…
With a race as long as the marathon, you’ve got 26.2 miles for things to go wrong. I thought that, since it was my 10th marathon, I was seasoned enough to sail through, maybe not with a PB but at least in a respectable (for me) time of around 3.40. But, although I had more…
