Queens Park Harriers

3000m of elevation is equal to climbing Scafell Pike 3x from sea level, Ben Nevis 2.2x, or 80% of the way up Mount Fuji. But why climb...

Background Going back to where it all started, I began my running journey in January 2019. Before then, you wouldn’t ever catch me on a...

To be clear, I never planned to do two marathons followed by two half marathons. It happened partly by accident and partly due to a...

I set myself the target of running a marathon in under 3 hours and 30 minutes back in April. That’s quite fast! I wasn’t sure if it was a...

I’ve had Loch Ness marathon in my sights since 2018, when I ran a 10k up there on the same day the marathon is held. It was my first...

After 7 months of training, I had reached the final leg of my very first marathon - starting at Maze Hill. The view from the top of Maze...

After finishing the Paris marathon (April 2022) with foot and knee pain, I had to stop running because of highly inflamed tendons in my...

Background: To truly understand what Berlin ‘22 meant to me, we need to go back a year when I “ran" my first marathon, on the same...

My journey began in March 2022 after securing a place in the October London Marathon. This triggered the start of my preparation for the...

This year, the Summer League was back to its original format with the added bonus of the sun shining at every race! At the season's end...

The Green Belt Relay is the equivalent of taking everything we know about the sport of running, compressing it into a ball and depositing...

It is with a certain sense of irony that I am writing a race report 5 weeks late, for an event I initially entered in 2019. Back then,...

A couple of weekends ago I decided to see if the awful fatigue after Covid had gone. I had Covid in October, very mildly, hardly noticed,...

On completing the virtual London marathon last autumn, I thought what next? I didn't have the inclination to go for a marathon PB as too...

parkrun - always the best way to start the weekend, but parkrun Mob Match puts an extra spring in my step, with the added incentive of a...

A Viennese Cake - How the finish time was just the cherry on top. Sponge - my marathon journey started back on 6th December 2021. After...

It really did seem like all the odds were against me in the lead up to Paris. Back in December, I hurt my IT band and didn’t run for 2...

I entered the Thames Meander Marathon with some very specific goals. I wanted low key with an interesting course but most of all, I...

The weather was just as cold and windy as for the Juniors in the Cross Country at the same venue on the day before – but without the sun....

The Watford Half returned a popular road race best known for its undulating hills, one of the clubs favourite, a great race to take part...