Jan
17
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Tough times since Edinburgh

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Last weekend was a bad day for me, not only did I disappoint myself I let my country down. I find it tough having a bad run [...]

Dec
19
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Saltwell

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I decided to go up north and run the Saltwell 10k this year because it was the 100th anniversary of England’s oldest road race. It’s a pretty [...]

Dec
13
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European Cross Race Report

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The Euro Cross is always a very strong race at the front end and very competitive. Last year in Portugal I was 29th and 3rd Brit home, [...]

Dec
10
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Before the Euro Cross

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I thought I’d do a quick blog while passing time in the hotel here in Velenje before the Euro Cross tomorrow. We set off very early yesterday [...]

Dec
6
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Slovenia Bound

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In my last blog I spoke about how I was upping the training and really pushing the winter training. I completed that week off with another triple [...]

Nov
29
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Liverpool Euro XC Trials

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Earlier in the winter I didn’t really want to focus on the Euro Cross having had a bad summer I was looking for ways to adjust my [...]

Nov
16
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Winter Weeks

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The last couple of weeks have been the toughest 2 weeks I’ve ever done in terms of training volume and i’m still not finished. After Mansfield I [...]

Nov
13
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Mansfield XC Relays

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Better late than never… I’d forgotton to write this race report so apologies for that. Mansfield was always pencilled in by John for me even after the [...]

Oct
31
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10 Miles

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10 miles was always going to be a real test for me having never really got my head around the longer stuff on the roads until recently. [...]

Oct
18
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Work & Train

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It’s been a pretty hectic last few weeks for me, mainly with work and training. My business has been going great recently and I’ve really enjoying doing [...]

Oct
18
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6 Stage Road Relays

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Probably my favourite race of the year. I don’t know what it is about 6 stage day but I absolutely love this race. I think it goes [...]

Oct
18
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Great Yorkshire Run report

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I’m a little bit delayed in getting this posted up due to work commitments over the last week or so. The Great Yorkshire run in Sheffield was [...]

Sep
20
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Great North Fun

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This weekend seen the 31st running of the Great North Run. A fantastic race and a huge event for my hometown, Newcastle. I always enjoy being around [...]

Sep
12
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An hour a day

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An hour a day. That’s my current training regime at the moment. I am slowly building back into training after my down period. I took a little [...]

Aug
29
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Steps to success

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It’s 3 weeks since I last updated and i’ll not lie, I was pretty down back then and I knew something wasn’t quite right. I couldn’t put [...]

Aug
8
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Feeling Low

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I can’t put into words how frustrated and annoyed I am with myself, mainly for doing the lowest thing I could possibly do in a race and [...]