The power of easy running
A question from one of my athletes gets me thinking about taking things even more slowly
Monday Musings
Weekly thoughts on the world of running
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Fell running in the south-west of England
On a baking hot August evening, my brother and I take on the Ivybridge 3 Tops fell race on Dartmoor
Small victories, big feelings
Racing around like big kids at the South Devon Relays
The summer of chaos, getting lost and losing weight
A week is a long time in the summer, although runs can be hard to squeeze in
A family race across Northamptonshire
Think Race Across the World, but with a smaller budget, less preparation, and kids
Appointment viewing on the track
The Josh Kerr show rolled into London town on Saturday, and I just had to stop and watch
Gone camping, back soon
Sorry for this week's sparse musings, but a spontaneous family camping trip has taken me away to the beach
Love Trails, hate the hype
A quick visit to the Love Trails festival has me harking back to the good old days
How to run in a heatwave
The joy of jumping into cold water midway through a burning hot run
In search of some (big) marginal gains
What can I do to get faster in my 50s, apart from simply running more?
The spirit of the ekiden
In which I take part in a 110km relay race from Windsor to Reading and back
Dandies forever!
A team from Devon take on all comers in a 44-mile relay race along the coast in Cornwall
Mad dogs and Englishmen
Running in the midday sun and then heading to the beach - what's the worst that could happen?
Racing the tide at breakneck walking speed
A two-day hike gets serious, while the Enhanced Games comes and goes with a whimper
A running pilgrimage across Dartmoor
Time to pull on those long-distance legs again and see what they have to offer
Rachel Entrekin breaks the internet - and a little book cover reveal
Some thoughts on the absolute scenes at the Cocodona 250 this week, and a first look at the US cover of The Running Pilgrim
There is no finish line
Where does the process of writing a book actually end? It's hard to say
History-makers on the Mall
It happened. They ran a sub-2 hour marathon. Hats off Sebastian Sawe and Yomif Kejelcha, you blew our minds today
A proper job over 5K
Bicarb, tick, official race, tick. Here we go again
Closing in on a book title
I've been to-ing and fro-ing with the publishers, but we're almost there
Killing it at the Killerton parkrun
An uneventful week culminated in a parkrun - which is always a blast