Wendover Woods 50 miler - Gabby Smart
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...
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Nov 20, 2022
Abingdon Marathon 2022 – Dan Wong
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...
Nov 17, 2022
4 weeks = 4 PBs - Karima Harris
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...
Nov 6, 2022
Amsterdam Marathon - Emma Yentis
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...
Nov 3, 2022
The Lure of Loch Ness - Sarah Dent
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...
Oct 10, 2022
The London Marathon 2022, the final destination - Neville Haneef
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...
Oct 10, 2022
Berlin & London Marathons, the Journey Towards Happiness - Caro Chau
After finishing the Paris marathon (April 2022) with foot and knee pain, I had to stop running because of highly inflamed tendons in my...
Oct 7, 2022
Berlin 2022, and how I got there - Fawad Karim
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...
Sep 7, 2022
From zero to 26.2 miles in 7 months: my marathon journey - Neville Haneef
My journey began in March 2022 after securing a place in the October London Marathon. This triggered the start of my preparation for the...
Sep 6, 2022
SUMMER LEAGUE 2022 - John and Jean Walerych
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...
Jun 13, 2022
Green Belt Relay 2022 - Saikat Chatterjee
The Green Belt Relay is the equivalent of taking everything we know about the sport of running, compressing it into a ball and depositing...
May 17, 2022
Great Welsh Marathon 2022 - Rich Byrne
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,...
May 12, 2022
Hampton Court Half & getting back to fitness - Susan Kennedy
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,...
May 5, 2022
North Downs Ridge 50km, One Step Beyond - Charles Tatham
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...
May 5, 2022
parkrun Mob Match: Sudbury Court - Sarah Dent
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...
May 5, 2022
Vienna Marathon 2022 - Gabby Smart
A Viennese Cake - How the finish time was just the cherry on top. Sponge - my marathon journey started back on 6th December 2021. After...
Apr 7, 2022
Paris Marathon 2022 - Emma Yentis
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...
Mar 20, 2022
Thames Meander Marathon - Sophie Barnard
I entered the Thames Meander Marathon with some very specific goals. I wanted low key with an interesting course but most of all, I...
Feb 17, 2022
Harrow Hill 10k - Peter Reupke
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....
Feb 16, 2022
Another PB, Watford Half 2022 - Chetan Khatry
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...
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