Winter 2017-18 has presented a sequence of challenges that have made consistent training very difficult, and left me relying on the key weekend routines to maintain any semblance of a routine. The key challenges have been two-fold, firstly my typical …
2014
Having reflected on 2013 and taken a couple of weeks off, 2014 has started in earnest with a good pool session yesterday, followed by a good 7 odd mile circuit out in very strong wind this morning.The plans for 2014 are twofold, firstly to run well …
2013 in review
Having wrapped up my racing year a week or so ago I wanted to take a little time to reflect on the events of the past 10 months or so before running through a quick debrief of the year from a different perspective perhaps from which I wrote at the …
Some thoughts in advance of the Clyde Stride
7 weeks on from my first ever DNF at the Cateran Trail Race I find myself just 4 sleeps away from the Clyde Stride Race from Glasgow to New Lanark, and I couldn’t be in a better place physically and importantly mentally going into this race. So …
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Back to back long runs on the Deeside Way
This weekend was one of back to back long runs, to last 3 hours on the Saturday, and 2 hours on the Sunday, which I had planned to do on the Deeside Way and Tarland Way respectively. The weather on the Saturday was very sunny and warm, with hardly a …
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6 Munro Circuit from Spittal of Glen Muick
I headed out with some friends today on a big mountain run. Starting out at the Spittal of Glen Muick car park we headed along Glen Muick and up onto Broad Cairn, which seemed to have a series of false tops prior to reaching the actual summit. …
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