CIAO

9 Aug 2013, 6:15 p.m.

Off in the morning for a week in Italy so just time for a quick update. The running shoes are packed, I haven't done a long run this week and I haven't missed a single retraining session from my plan either s it looks like I'll be doing 15 miles in the ...

THE REASONS FOR RUNNING

6 Aug 2013, 10:16 p.m.

I feel a little humbled by the fantastic achievements of you lot this weekend. This no longer surprises me though, I've come to realise that PB's and amazing performances are to be expected from Realbuzzers.  Well done Nick on your parkrun PB, Oggie on ...

LOSER

1 Aug 2013, 2:50 p.m.

  So, winning certainly isn't everything. It's been a week since my last post, I'm back from an excellent family Olympics and into a really hectic week both at work and at home. I have tried hard to catch up on all the fantastic blogs from the past 6 ...

OLYMPIC TIME

25 Jul 2013, 10 a.m.

Not just any Olympics though, this weekend its the eagerly awaited annual McArthur Family Olympics. We have a large and competitive family and on the last weekend in July we get together on my step mums farm for our very own Olympics. We set up camp in ...

INBETWEEN DAYS

23 Jul 2013, 11:56 a.m.

So how many of you get the song title reference? ( answers on a postcard - or in the comments section ! )The opening line of the song in question felt very appropriate yesterday as I attemped a fast tempo run - 3 miles in 20.40, hot , humid and a bit ho...

TWO'S COMPANY

22 Jul 2013, 10:07 a.m.

Just reading through the blogs this morning and it looks like its been a really positive weekend for lots of you. Great stories and strong running performances in every post, a positive start to the week reading through them all. I had my own positive e...

THE WORKING WEEK

15 Jul 2013, 9:51 p.m.

Evening all. so, week 2 of my 16 week plan for York is done, it went something like this : Tuessday - an interval session of 4  x 1200m with 2min rest between intervals. Really tough and nearly made me sick with effort! 3.5 miles run in 22.58, ave of 6....

CHALLENGES

11 Jul 2013, 10:26 a.m.

There seems to be a great spirit amongst the RB family at the moment. Reading through the blogs has been inspirational as ever and most of us are hitting some good right now.There are some interesting targets , goals and challenges being undertaken this...

PB

6 Jul 2013, 8:49 p.m.

Hello everyone, what a beautiful day. I did my third Parkrun today, it was already hot when we lined up at 9 this morning. Despite the heat I had the advantage of not having the dog, shopping bag or my son with me this week and was determined to run a l...

YORKSHIRE MARATHON

4 Jul 2013, 2:37 p.m.

Hi all, As you probably know, I'm running the Yorkshire Marathon on October the 20th. This is the fisrt York Marathon for a long time and it looks to be a great event, as a result the 6,100 places sold out really fast. I have just been contacted by the ...

16 WEEKS

1 Jul 2013, 10:20 a.m.

Morning everyone, July already! Today marks the official first day proper of my training for the York Marathon on October 20th. The schedule is printed out and my yellow highlighter is ready to start crossing off the sessions. I'm not sure how I feel ab...

RB PLAYLIST

26 Jun 2013, 10:29 a.m.

I enjoyed readin Gloshawk's blog the other day, the one where he listed his running playlist. Rob also did the same thing at the weekend where he let us into the tracks that he had used for his intense bile/run workout, there was everything from Donna S...

FIRST TIMER

22 Jun 2013, 11:08 p.m.

After a few weeks of busy weekends I was finally able to make it to my first ever Park Run this morning. Everyone was still fast asleep as I left the house at 8.20 and headed to the Kanavesmire, a vast swathe of grassland and home of York's racecourse. ...

46!

17 Jun 2013, 10:03 p.m.

No tight red red trouser pictures this week, I promise.! Family and work life have been very full these past days, there has consequently been a lack of both running and blogging. I've managed to dip in a leave the odd comment though. There is great mom...

Matador *** WARNING TIGHT TRO...

11 Jun 2013, 10:23 a.m.

Morning all, I'm back from the trip to the Highlands, the trousers held up without an embarassing tear incident. They were however a bit tight for comfort and not an item that I would wear around small children. The reason for the trip was a charity bo...

Matador

7 Jun 2013, 2:08 p.m.

I've settled on a training plan and typed it up. Training starts officially on July 1st for the York marathon, ill be running throughout June but not to a specific plan. The new programme in based around your 10k race time which you use to calculate you...

PLANS

4 Jun 2013, 12:12 p.m.

Hello all of you. Its been great reading the blogs over these last few weeks. So many fantastic stories, photos and achievements. I have to single out Oggie, Hollywood and Rob for their inspirational results recently. Just great. I've been ticking over ...

THINKING

22 May 2013, 10:17 p.m.

I've not posted for a while, largely because there isn't much to report. I have been following your blogs though, I find them interesting, informative, heartfelt and often amusing and I genuinely look forward to reading them, so thanks to all of you. We...

SECRET IS OUT

12 May 2013, 10:48 p.m.

This weekend the time came to break the news to my wife and kids that I've entered the York Marathon in October. I've been carrying tis guilty secret around for almost three weeks now. Some of you kind Realbuzz people have offered advice on how to break...

ENJOYMENT

8 May 2013, 2:02 p.m.

I think that during the build up to London I began to dislike running. I didn't look forward to my training runs that much, they were something that I had to get through, slotted into a busy family schedule my runs often became a chore. A neccessary cho...

Not in the pot

29 Apr 2013, 9:36 p.m.

At 6.45am I dithered and sat there staring at the VLM site for 5 minutes and then decided not to enter the ballot for London this year, i closed the laptop and had a shower.After breakfast i dithered again opened up the website ,clicked onto the " enter...

TOP SECRET

26 Apr 2013, 6:28 p.m.

Please don't tell my wife yet, but only 5 days after the London Marathon I've signed up for another. After 18 weeks of mild obsession she's quite glad that the months of London marathon build up are now behind us and is looking forward to things getting...

LON-DONE

22 Apr 2013, 9:49 p.m.

I'm not quite sure where to start with this one. My thoughts are a little disassociated so please forgive me if its a bit rambling. first and foremost , the event is perfectly organised and runs like clockwork so hats of to the VLM team. Secondly ( but ...

3.34.41

21 Apr 2013, 8:06 p.m.

Missed it by 55 secs. Oh well, fantastic day and too drunk too mmake sense of it now. .