Result from last year: 0:57:47
Current 10k PB: 0:46:30
My target for this race was around 0:46:00 but I have had a fairly hard week with another 10k race last Thursday which saw me get 47.22 on a fairly hard multi terrain course.
After having helped out on my mums boat yesterday I stopped [...]

Im not one to usually do a race report, but i though i would give it ago,
This was my first ever race last year, so i felt that i had to enter it, even if it was the week after my first marathon..
Woke up on the morning and it was raining… not just normal rain [...]

Pete and I flew up to Edinburgh on the Friday morning first thing so had a couple of days in the city – acclimatising to the sunshine, the city steps, the bagpipes and the Scots! We made a point of getting our vests printed with our names so we could draw some support from the [...]

Aimed for a sub 1 hour 50 mins time – which would put me on track for a sub 4 hour marathon – so aimed for a pace which would bring me in at 1 hour 48…. and this was quite tricky to do given the undulations of the course, but kept an eye on [...]

Well with Edinburgh fast approaching, the long run weeks are disapearing fast.  Due to various race comitments, we decided to do our long run last Friday night. Not a problem usually, but this was our first monster. A full 19 miles..
All went well in the run without too many problems, however a sick feeling developed [...]

Round one of the clubs winter league saw about 20 people freezing their butts off in the middle of Balsall Common. The route was a 4.5mile loop all on road, and mostly flat.
Being in group A (the slow ‘uns) we set off 5mins ahead of the others.  It was only a small group but I [...]

On 26th October 2008 Birmingham will stage its first ever half marathon organised by Birmingham City Council and this historic Race Against Climate Change is sponsored by
EDF Energy. 

The EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon, which is 13.1 miles long, will start outside the Birmingham Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr, a fitting venue given that the stadium [...]

Twice around the 5k track, all multi terrain with slight inclines and trails. This course uses the same tracks as the other Festival events. Although not particularly hilly it is wonderful scenary to run across with some fast gravel tracks and slower heathland trials.
Xtreme Terrain 10