Cape Wrath the movie ...

4 Jan 2017, 4:18 p.m.

Hello Buzzers I'm back at work after a wonderful week in Northumberland. No signal, no wifi just simple pleasures and a few beautiful hill runs ! I managed to get some wifi connection in a Wooler cafe and was able to find out the humbling news that I ha...

2016

29 Dec 2016, 5:40 p.m.

I'm off to my usual spot for new year, a few days of solitude with family and friends in the Northumbrian hills. Its been a strange running year for me. Six months of the most intensive and exhaustive training followed by 8 days of Cape Wrath challenge....

The stronger wind, the strong...

6 Oct 2016, 4:26 p.m.

Ive been away far too long. I heard this and it made me think of this place and you strong, wonderful people. Im looking forward to seeing many of you in Snowdon , we will raise our glasses and toast those who wont be there. Cheers!     Good Timber The ...

Cape Wrath

23 Jun 2016, 12:33 p.m.

I’ve been thinking about writing this since the day after the race finished but until now the feelings weren’t well formed enough to put into words, however the longer I leave it the less  sharp the detail gets. I don’t think I’ll be able to write a day...

65 hours

19 May 2016, 2:58 p.m.

Counting down in hours now! Next time I make a blog post it will be after Cape Wrath, a strange feeling knowing that next time I log in I will be doing so with a tale to tell of the biggest challenge of my life. Ive been balancing the excitement with th...

12 days

10 May 2016, 4:12 p.m.

Its down to days rather than weeks now. I knew that it would suddenly be upon me like this, for so long its felt so distant and now it feels too near. I still have a fair bit of the preparations to complete. The weather is changeable, hail just 10 days ...

3.5

27 Apr 2016, 1:25 p.m.

Its been an exciting time for so many of us this month, for those running spring marathons and for those watching, supporting and following online too. It emphasises the great spirit of community that’s found here, well done to every one of you involved...

6.5

7 Apr 2016, 2:55 p.m.

Once again the time slips by. The clocks have moved forward, the days lighter and longer, daffodils blooming, birds singing with enthusiam! Im here to wish every one of you who have been training while the conditions have been less than perfect and the ...

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3 Mar 2016, 4:10 p.m.

This blog is just a bit of an apology really. My prep for the Cape Wrath Ultra has taken me away from blogging. Its odd how it became so much a part of my training for the road marathons and my place on Realbuzz certainly helped my commitment to the cau...

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2 Feb 2016, 3:47 p.m.

Hello everyone. It’s been a while ! My last blog was on the 10th December so I’m long overdue an update. When I blogged in December I was just easing back into running again after the slipped disc injury that had affected plans so dramatically since Aug...

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10 Dec 2015, 11:03 p.m.

I'm sticking to my cape wrath countdown because I need the reminder! The low down is that I suffered a bit post Snowdon running wise. It was to be expected really. You can't just run a marathon with an injury off no training and expect to emerge unscath...

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7 Nov 2015, 6:35 p.m.

Exactly two weeks ago today I was lying on the bed in my B&B having just completed the Snowdon marathon. I was looking forward to an evening with a great bunch of people who had done the same thing or who had supported us doing it.It was a position ...

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16 Oct 2015, 6:11 p.m.

Absence from blogging is usually due to one of two reasons , A/ I'm not doing much running so have nothing much interesting to report or B/ I get so busy with juggling the rest of the things going on at home and work that writing a blog sometimes gets p...

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23 Sep 2015, 11:51 a.m.

Unbelievably two more weeks have slipped by. Sadly for me they were yet another two weeks of zero progress on the running front. But today I will start with positives rather than negatives.  This morning I put both socks and shoes on unassisted in less ...

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10 Sep 2015, 4:10 p.m.

Still not much possitive to report this week I'm afraid. The pain hasn't really got any better and I'm still walking around like an old man. This weekend will mark 6 weeks since the onset of my bad back so I decided to book a doctors appointment. I got ...

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1 Sep 2015, 9:52 p.m.

A quick check in to update on my own pitifully small contribution to this year's Great Oggie Run. Before going any further though I want to echo much of what has already been said and written. Pure magic this weekend, stops pulled out, gun blazing glory...

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25 Aug 2015, 1:49 p.m.

If I hadn’t been titling my blogs with weekly countdown numbers this one would be called “ A pain in the ****” I’ve had a pain in the lower back, ****, hamstring and calf for three and a half weeks now and its not getting any better. It makes you realis...

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4 Aug 2015, 12:08 p.m.

The problem with not blogging so regularly is there is more to say whenever you do! I’m still logging in and reading most mornings but just not recording my own progress quite as often. So, what’s the news?... Firstly, I’ve not really recovered fully fr...

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14 Jul 2015, 2:53 p.m.

We are flying through the year.   Quite incredible achievements have taken place since I last blogged, I’ve read about them all and commented on most - please forgive me for those that I missed. In my two and a half years on Realbuzz I don’t think I’ve ...

50

12 Jun 2015, 12:59 p.m.

I'm starting another highly original series of countdown blog titles !   In 50 weeks time I will be about to start what will be the biggest physical challenge of my life to date. I mentioned it a month or two ago on here and since then I haven’t been ab...

up + down

3 Jun 2015, 11:39 a.m.

As you may recall , my last blog was erased before posting. It was a frustrating experience and time has been short recently so not enough time to re-write it properly. I haven’t got much time now either so this is a shortened version !   I entered the ...

ggggrrrrrr

21 May 2015, 4:41 p.m.

i just wrote a long blog about the fell marathon and didnt save it. then it got wiped. so you'll just have to imagine what it was like until I get time to write it all again!

Lionheart

19 May 2015, 4:07 p.m.

This is just a quick post to wish our Berlin Bolt a fair wind and enough luck for his mighty challenge this weekend. He's back off to Cyprus for a second crack at a technical and gruelling 80km ultra in the mediterranean heat. You may remember his brave...

Backstory

29 Apr 2015, 2:34 p.m.

I can’t remember who it was that wrote the first backstory , but I know that there have been a few posted now. Each one is so insightful and illuminating and gives a greater picture of the personal and why they have become a long distance a runner . I’v...