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I’ve been writing about running for quite some time now and if you are struggling to find something to grab you, how about starting here with this selection of my most popular running, swimming and triathlon posts.

Ten Perfect Xmas Gifts for the Runner in Your Life

November 26, 2011
Ten Perfect Xmas Gifts for the Runner in Your Life

If you have a runner in your life you have to class yourself as one of the lucky few when it comes to Christmas present choices – they are so easy to buy for. If they are gadget loving runners then life is even easier. I imagine there will be thousands of people who have [...]

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9 Top iPhone Apps for Runners

November 9, 2010
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I’ve been running with my iPhone for a couple of years and I think I have now got a fairly stable armory of running or health related apps that I would be prepared to recommend. I’ll split them into 4 sections and go from there. The Running Logs The iPhone is my ever present mobile [...]

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Personlised FIRST Training Schedules – A Marathon in 3 days a Week

October 28, 2010
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Crossing the line at the end of the Great North run I felt elated, 10 mins later I was sick and feverish. Any fitness I had in September disappeared over the next 5 weeks as I feebly battled a chest infection. Now that I’ve more or less cleared my chest and started venturing back onto [...]

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Garmin Forerunner 310XT – The Review

July 7, 2010
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Having abandoned treadmill running in favour of the great outdoors it wasn’t long before I began to bemoan the loss of my preferred running watch the Garmin Forerunner 305. I long for pretty maps to illustrate my outdoor running routes and spur me on to explore my surroundings and for that you need GPS. Fortunately [...]

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Great North Swim 2009

September 15, 2009
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So the big day arrived, not quite the day that every girl dreams of, but as days go it was big enough to require the same sort of dietary preparations. 6 weeks of off and on Stella abstinence brought me to a point where I was prepared to at least attempt a public shoe-horning of [...]

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Tight Tabards

March 30, 2009
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I have had a long held, yet chronicly resisted urge, to run around a muddy field under the command of some fella wearing army fatigues. Today I caved in and signed myself up for a trial run of the british Military Fitness experience. A very weird thing. It’s like an S&M version of school PE [...]

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Great North Run 2008

October 7, 2008
Great North Run 2008

I love this event, it is a complete pain to get to, it costs a fortune, it’s almost impossible to get out of South Shields before night fall, but it still remains the highlight of my year. Grubby street urchins high fiving you, toddlers squirting bottled puddle water at your feet, spectators cheering and offering [...]

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Brompton World Championships – 2008

September 30, 2008
Brompton World Championships - 2008

I am such a social cretin before an event and watching the city boys arrive at the coach station in their pin striped suits and titanium s-bar bikes didn’t go anyway towards making me feel at home. I cheered up a bit on arrival at Blenheim when friendly faces appeared out of the crowd and [...]

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Runabout the Capital Ring

September 23, 2008
Runabout the Capital Ring

I was so excited by today’s proposition that I forgot completely that I always procrastinate for at least 3 hours before leaving the front door with my running shoes. By 8am I had crammed two mini cheese and cucumber pittas, 1 half bag of American jelly beans (I’d raided the other half the day before), [...]

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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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