Tag: running

Ten kilometer races are funny things aren’t they? I guess maybe a lot of people get into running with 5 and 10k races but that’s not the route I came. My first race as an adult was the Hangzhou half marathon. In actual fact before this weekend I’d only run two competitive (ish) 10ks. The first…

Running round and round in circles for six hours. Photos on Flickr So the other day (in Pete’s blogging cadence anyway) I got pinged to go run some relay thing in the park at Stromovka. In my head relay pretty much equates to easy, just for fun, type of thingy so I said yes and…

GPS track of my Bratislava Half Marathon yesterday is on Garmin Connect here for my fellow running geeks out there. Unfortunately and very frustratingly I didn’t know when I crossed the line whether I’d beaten my personal best or not. In fact, it wasn’t until the day after when I checked the official timing for this…

View full photo set on Flickr. Well 2010 has been a much better year for running events. With everything going on in 2009 I managed a paultry 3.1 competitive kilometers. 2010 has seen a half marathon PB, my first flat full marathon (and therefore another PB, with another continent bagged) a fun 10k through the…

I’ve been meaning to post this since I took this picture on the day of the Prague Full Marathon in May. Now is a good time to come back to it as me, JS and MG prepare to set off to Slovakia to run the Liptovsky Maraton (or in my case half) in Liptovsky Mikulas.…

So I am learning to run barefoot in Vibram Fivefinger shoes… The simplicity, indeed the packability of the Fivefingers appealed to me from the outset and, they are unashamedly cool. But I’ve had injuries from running in bad shoes. I know that footwear is not something to be taken lightly. So, I did some reading. Many,…

An exploration of one’s background fitness level, it turned out to be. So I’m not wildly excited by my time of 56:06, it’s certainly not the slowest I’ve ever run 10k, it’s also a long, long way from the fastest. The positive is that I didn’t train at all and in fact have probably been…

I have to be honest, it had bothered me. With all the running I’ve done in the last four years, all the events I’ve run, the only full marathon I’d run was the Great Wall Marathon. Now the Great Wall Marathon is 42k, it’s a pretty hard way to cover 42k, actually but it’s not,…

So with everything else going on during 2009 the only event I ran was Velka Kunraticka which was a very pleasant 3.1k over hills and through a couple of streams here in Prague. 2010, then, needed from the begining to have some good events in it. The Prague Half was a great start in this…