Last weekend was the London marathon. I have mixed feelings about how the race went and that is possibly best captured by the top 10 things I have taken away from the race: 1) I ran 2:43:37 and came 235th 2) I am still the fastest runner in my club 3) I discovered that even [...]
Posts Tagged ‘competition’
A little time to reflect on the Virgin London Marathon 2011
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged competition, half marathon, marathon, nick anderson, PB, personal best, running, running with us, training, virgin london marathon 2011, VLM on April 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The law of diminishing returns vs. the aggregation of marginal gains.
Posted in Export, Uncategorized, tagged competition, half marathon, PB, personal best, potential, running, self-confidence, training on March 20, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Today I ran a personal best at the Reading half marathon (hooray)… by 20 seconds (oh) which equates to just over a second a mile (erm…) and that has made me think about running, diminishing returns and what it takes to continue to improve. A couple of weeks ago a compatriot and training partner ran [...]
Go hard, or go home – you decide.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged competition, marathon, personal best, potential, running, self-confidence, training on January 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Recently my friend and, dare I say it, sometime mentor Charlie Dark mentioned to me a motto he has adopted: ‘go hard, or go home’. Now I have been thinking about this quite a bit and I have come to realise that it means many things. But one thing in particular about this phrase has [...]
Honesty of the long distance runner
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Boston marathon, cheating, competition, honesty, marathon, new york marathon, personal best, potential, Roberto Madrazo, Rosa Ruiz, running, self-confidence, truth on December 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The entire history of athletics – and the marathon is no exception – is peppered by stories of people who have decided that they are going to use nefarious and dishonest means to try to steal the glory that other earn through hard work and determination – we generally call them cheats. At the moment [...]
Happiness is a 26.2 mile race
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged competition, Florence marathon, happiness, marathon, running, Simon Amstell on November 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have been in a bit of a bad mood today – not in the sense I have been in an angry or an ugly mood, but I have been in the opposite of a good mood. I would call it a grumpy mood. Slightly annoyed by the unwanted intrusion of work at the weekend [...]
