Back in June, I wrote a blog post about Piyush Shah, an inspirational man from Ahmedabad in Gujarat, who had set out to run 100 marathons in a year. Indeed. Every day, it seems, when I open Facebook, there is another modest, laconic update from Piyush-ji about yet another marathon …
This ain’t what you think, folks. This blog post has got nothing to do with being fit or fast or young. Nah, this is all about the fact that there are simply not enough places available to accommodate all the many people who want to run the London marathon. There are way, …
I have mentioned my friend Romit Basu to you before. He sends me photos from London. He sweetly sent me his marathon training schedule which I must, absolutely must start following. Romit ran his first ever full marathon in London this April. Here’s the photo to prove it. (Yes, indeed, …
Social media is a funny old thing. In a relatively short period of time it has come to dominate our lives, totally and utterly. There are pros and cons to this, as we all know, and I have no intention of boring you witless discussing them here. How much social …
Just a month ago, I started a new section of this blog dedicated to training and preparing to run a marathon. Then I immediately buzzed off on holiday and that was that. For the blog posts, I mean. I ran every day while in South Africa – I’m on my …
Perfect for a day like today, when so many of us ran the Pinkathon. Made me smile, friends 🙂
Dunno. I was actually hoping that you will all help me out in this huge, slightly scary, but super exciting venture. As I write, the timeframe to train is although the countdown has already moved on a couple of minutes in the time it took me to write this much… …
Quite. Who’d’ve thunk it? Chairman Mao himself. Was he a long distance runner, I wonder? I know he’s supposed to have swum the Yangtse in the middle of the winter or something, but running…? See, running leads you in all kinds of interesting directions, now, doesn’t it?
…and have a giggle. I found this funny blog post online (gotta love Facebook) and thought you would all enjoy it. Having been to a presentation yesterday, organised by the lovely ladies at “Prevention” & “Women’s Health” magazine, aimed at encouraging women to start running – the exact same initiative …
Almost two years ago to the day, I did NOT go to the first exploratory meeting of what would become my running group. That was because I was in Hong Kong with my family celebrating my 60th birthday. Confidently expecting myself to be a gibbering wreck (hey, getting old ain’t …
