This is a massive blog turnaround personal best for me. “The sooner this is written,” I thought, “the sooner I can forget all about it.” Suddenly struck by the fear […]

This weekend American ultrarunner Zach Bitter will attempt to break the 100 mile treadmill world record. This is a short primer on the history of the treadmill. Running on the […]

Caveat: I’m not a coach and this isn’t training advice. My main reason for putting this up here is that explaining the plan to other people forces me to think […]

There may be a whole lot of me thinking out loud on here in the next little while. I apologise in advance. If I post anything objectively moronic, please call […]

For the last 3 and a bit years I’ve been coached by Martin Cox, but as of this week, I’m going it alone. For most punters who get a coach, […]

Tesco in the Age of Covid-19 The smell in the air is alcoholic; the clinical sharpness of hand sanitizer mixing with the fermented earthiness of a rotting cabbage, kicked behind […]

This year was Highland Hill Runners first time sending a team to the Devil’s Burdens. A four leg hill running relay, the first and the last run solo, the middle […]

I was a late addition to the Scotland North team for the interdistricts. Full of the cold, my participation in the district champs in December extended only as far as […]

Everything had gone to shit long before I arrived in Azpeitia. Some combination of heat, dehydration, early race enthusiasm, I still don’t really know. But just 50k into Ehunmilak’s 163k […]

I first went to Jura in 2011. I put my postal entry in with a note saying that although I’d only run one hill race, Pentland Skyline, I was planning […]