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Great North Swim

September 16, 2008
Great North Swim

How cold?! I eased myself gently into the lake until I slipped on a hunk of plankton and ended up bobbing some where near my ears with a foul expression on my face. The lake was freezing and I had the pleasure of sitting in it for the bizarrely named “warm up”. There’s only one [...]

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Nike Humanrace and Waterlogged Gadgets

September 1, 2008
Nike Humanrace and Waterlogged Gadgets

Saturday evening, after entertaining my family with a slightly charred roast lamb joint but a perfectly acceptable bottle of vino (or two), I get an email from Nike. Apparently, if I could resurrect the long dead Nike+ Sportband, and push my sorry arse out of the door, complete with Sunday morning hangover, to complete a [...]

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Great Capital Run

July 20, 2008
Great Capital Run

As is usual for race day, I wake up grumpy as hell and immediately text OGB to remind him that he is entirely responsible for all that is wrong with the world – he replies with something outrageously abusive. A quick look back over previous race reports ought to be enough to remind me why [...]

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Surrey Housewives organise the British London 5k

July 6, 2008
Surrey Housewives organise the British London 5k

This time last year I came face to face with the world renowned shambles that is the British London 10k. Fortunately, this time round I was invited to join the Surrey Housewives Set in their annual attempt to show Michael O’Reilly how mass participation events should be organised. Under the auspices of SHS1 the humongous [...]

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RPTT – 12th January

January 13, 2008
RPTT - 12th January

Having been accused, quite outrageously, of not actually doing any training, I thought I ought to set the record straight! I went for a run. Today. It wasn’t pretty but then these 5k time trials are not meant to pretty. I would have been last, only the tail end canine – a fairly stout little [...]

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Chrimble BPTT

December 25, 2007
Chrimble BPTT

Today was the annual showing of the Christmas Bushy Park Time Trial and I’ve been looking forward to this particular event for about 340 days, since my first introduction to the wonder of the time trial phenomonen back in February. It would have been easy to stay in bed this morning, it was dark and [...]

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RPTT Update for 8th Dec 07

December 11, 2007
RPTT Update for 8th Dec 07

Here’s a quick post for completeness. I may still be slacking on the posting front but I am at least back out there and running! I think this week marks the first time since the Great North Run that I have actually persuaded myself to go out of the door on a non-event related excuse. [...]

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It’s Grim Down South

December 1, 2007
It's Grim Down South

Forgive me bloggers for I have sinned. It has been three weeks since I last got off my fat arse and moved faster than a shuffle. I was suffering from infectious slobitis and generalised exam anxiety, but that is over now and today I paid a big price for my excessive slothfulness. Sitting here shattered [...]

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Racing with the Surrey Housewives – Loseley 10k

November 4, 2007
Racing with the Surrey Housewives - Loseley 10k

This post should be subtitled “Portaloo Anxiety”, if only to warn you that what follows will be somewhat focussed on bodily functions. However thats giving the game away before I’ve even started, so lets crack on. Todays race involved me gate crashing the elite Surrey Housewives Set (SHS) for a trog around the muddy woods [...]

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RPTT – No 3

November 3, 2007
RPTT - No 3

No pathetic excuses this week, I hopped out of bed at the first hint of a fake sunrise and cycled out to Richmond Park. Another beautiful morning (captured by David Rowe) that could have been missed with a lazy lie in. Funny start to todays time trial, even before we set off there was a [...]

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