Lisrun

Last summer I decided it might be a good idea to contact an old schoolfriend. Through the wonders of Facebook, I found him and and we ex...

Melanie and I travelled down on the Saturday as the race started at 8 and we certainly did not fancy getting up very early on Sunday morning...

My sixth time round Kielder and my third time at this low key and free marathon for members of the North East Marathon Club (membership is j...

It has been a while, the middle of November was the last time I did a long race. My training since then has been poor, just one long run and...

I was up at 4.30, had breakfast and headed off in the dark to Hetton-le-Hole. I got there in plenty of time (I could have slept longer !) a...

Day 3 of the running weekend. This was a lovely event, great route, very clear route description (it wasn't marked), free tea and biscu...

A marathon on a Friday? Well why not, it was the 11th day of the 11th month of 2011. Naturally, the race started at 11:11. At 11 there was ...