My Running Week to 29/04/18

I write this blog after another double race week which turned out to be a great week. I started the week with a few doubts as I realised my training run last Sunday was done too fast.  The key session I did on Friday was enough and I should have been doing all easy runs …

My Favourite Races

There are so many great races out there so I thought I'd write a blog about some of my favourite races so far.  Please note this is just my honest opinions and I haven't been give anything from anyone for writing this up 😉 10k  Pilling 10k Pilling 10k is a series of six races …

My Running Week to 22/04/2018

Before writing about my week I’d like to say a massive well done to everyone that completed London Marathon today. Many of my friends trained extremely hard for a specific time and I know from being in the same position for races myself, that it’s incredibly difficult to adjust your target on the day for …

Fat Boys Can Get Fit

As you may have seen in my first blog 'Couch to sub 3 hour marathon in 12 months', it all started about 4 years ago to today so I'll start from there. 4 and a bit Years Ago - Where I Was Anything to do with fitness had stopped a couple of years before and …

My Running Week to 15/04/2018

The plan is to write one of these every week starting from now.  As this is the first one I'm going to go back 8 days as I had a race last Sunday. The last 8 days have been an amazing week and a bit for me, seeing 2 races and my RunBritain handicap go …

My P + D (Pfitzinger + Douglas) Marathon training

Links to download 55-70 plans at the bottom of log Last year for the Berlin Marathon, for the first time rather than the usual make up my own training I used a P+D (Pfitzinger + Douglas) plan - the 12 week 70 mile plan from their book 'Advanced Marathoning' and tweaked it just a little. After …

The second year (4/15 to 4/16)

The second year of running started off well and continued from where the first left off. Initially after Manchester Marathon, I struggled walking for a few days due to the aching.  Getting up and down stairs, I remember was an absolute killer initially but after a couple of very easy short runs in the first …

The rest of the first 12 months

The path from day 1 to marathon involved fairly rapid progress as I lost weight and gained a string of PB's in every race I did.  The PB's undoubtedly helped lots with my focus.  It gave me a massive buzz and a great feeling, challenging myself to see how long I could keep a PB run …