My London Marathon 2005 diary starts here. The race report is here. Wednesday, January 18, 2006. Training diary can now be found at Running Commentary. Monday, August 01, 2005. In case anyone is thinking of trying Google AdSense.

Rocks, running and the world. The vista is all but empty now, across the expanses of the open plain ahead. The sky is blue and cloudless, the temperature cool in the early morning as the huge animal lumbers slowly past me. A bright flash of sun glints c.

The evolving manifesto of a soft core runner. Saturday, February 01, 2014. Some Reflections on the End of Janathon 2014. In the last couple of weeks I have been coming home refreshed and a run has set me up for the day, rather than being the cause of despair. Huzzah! It might, of course prove to be a false dawn but that is something only time will tell. In the meantime all you can do is take it one run at a time. The future will then take care of itself. Thursday, January 30, 2014.

The Road to Dublin Marathon 2007. Thursday, 1 November 2007. The End of the Road? Tuesday, 30 October 2007. Purchased official teddy bear, as I had promised my son I would, and before we left we both signed the Adidas wall. Thats a first he said! I expected to feel elation as I crossed the line, but I felt relief, and I expected to cry, but I was so exhausted that I didnt even have the energy to do so.

I was also told by someone else that being a good runner is as much in the mind as it is about running. He-he I was very tempted just to say that but I shant! If, like bear, you wondered where I am these days .