The trials of life

28 May 2015, 9:03 p.m.

Hello , I hope you are all doing ok. I was intending to blog recently but family life has been quite hectic recently and i have struggled to find much free time but I am here now and this is what I have been up to in the past couple of weeks. As you may...

Back on the road

10 May 2015, 2:03 p.m.

I have had a lovely weekend so far , we spent Saturday morning in Milton Keynes buying some cricket gear for the boys . I treated myself to some adidas trackkie bottoms which look great with my VLM jacket Tracy won for me at the expo :). I spent the aft...

Impossible to put into words....

27 Apr 2015, 7:46 p.m.

Hi everyone , I'm signing in having just about got off of cloud 9 and now ready to write down the account of the weekend before I forget something , I need to get it all down because it was a truly wonderful experience once again and an emotional roller...

I'm just happy I can run at a...

24 Apr 2015, 8:42 p.m.

Hello . It has been an exciting few weeks in Realbuzz land with the heroic efforts of the runners in Brighton and Manchester especially and it looks like it is set to continue on Sunday hopefully. You may have noticed I have been a bit quiet on the blog...

London Marathon is getting cl...

4 Apr 2015, 3:20 p.m.

Hello and happy easter to everyone. I have my feet up at my parents place in Mablethorpe , enjoying the sea air and fish and chips . Tommorow i will be up early to run 6 miles or so along the sea front , content that the furthest miles have been complet...

20 miles and smiling

21 Mar 2015, 3:53 p.m.

I'm sitting on the sofa with my feet up while I write this , my legs are a bit achey at the moment but other than that I'm fine after the 20 mile long run this morning , and I have a smile on my face because i coped with it a lot better than i did the l...

My fastest Half Marathon but ...

15 Mar 2015, 9:01 p.m.

Hello everyone. We are getting to the business end of the spring racing season and it is amazing to see how many people are out there giving it their all . We had a record turn out for the Silverstone half marathon today and despite the weather I think ...

More miles done and countdown...

7 Mar 2015, 4:35 p.m.

Hello. Thank you for all the nice comments to my posts , it is always appreciated. I have had a good week of running culminating with a long slow run of 18 miles today , which although tiring at the end was very enjoyable. The weather this morning was v...

Sometimes you have to put up ...

1 Mar 2015, 1:33 p.m.

Hello everyone , thank you for all your kind words about my son and also the advice about the running shoes . On the latter , I am hoping to report my findings on a very different running shoe I received on Saturday after returning the Asics Nimbus - th...

Scratching my head over new s...

22 Feb 2015, 2:51 p.m.

Hello everyone - thank you for all the nice comments to my last post. I'm hoping for a few replies to this one as I need some advice ' from the field ' . First off , another interesting week , just when you think it is all going well something happens t...

grinding out the long miles

14 Feb 2015, 3:36 p.m.

Hello , I hope you are all doing ok and enjoying the reasonable weather which is certainly ideal for running . I have had another consistent week of running so far , with the usual very early morning sessions at a comfortable pace. Thursday morning I wa...

The loneliness of the long di...

8 Feb 2015, 5 p.m.

Hello everyone , i hope you have all had a good weekend . Me , I am still getting over the news that I have gained a place in the London Marathon for Great Ormond Street , and it has also dawned on me that i had better get some serious miles in ! You ma...

What a week ! Change all plan...

5 Feb 2015, 7:21 p.m.

Hello everyone . I've been avidly following all your blogs and news via facebook . I know this has probably been said before but you 'buzzers are an amazing bunch of people . This is the time of year the really sorts out the tough from the also -rans an...

and then the lights went out !

17 Jan 2015, 11:43 a.m.

Hello it's me again. Thanks for the comments to my last post , thankfully all the nasty bugs and cold's have now been removed from the Harvey household and we are all back to our best. It has still been quite a week - Tracy was quite stressed because Of...

More miles and more smiles

11 Jan 2015, 4:42 p.m.

Hi everyone thank you so much for all the views and comments to my last post , it really is appreciated . This week has been all about consistency , or trying to acheive it . I am back on the regular diet of fish , pasta , vegetables and beetroot of cou...

Good after bad

4 Jan 2015, 3:20 p.m.

Hello and a happy new year to all of you , i hope you have all recovered from the excess eating and drinking over the festive period which takes me neatly onto the first part of my latest running diary and that is the 'bad running' I experienced early i...

Take a break ? Never !

21 Dec 2014, 8:22 p.m.

Hello everyone , I hope you are all well and have your christmas plans under control . I have two very excited boys bouncing off the walls , and I am secretly excited about christmas this year because having two boys means I get to play with their toys ...

Fog

16 Nov 2014, 9:09 p.m.

Hello . There has been some great posts on here and Facebook lately and those I wish to mention are those from Dave Hollywood with his motivational words , Oggie and his epic marathon feat this weekend, and Gaelle who got her sub 2 hour half marathon at...

New jacket

13 Nov 2014, 6:45 p.m.

I have continued with the theme of doing my own thing this week and run most mornings . The calves felt a bit tight this morning so I didn't run all that far , only 3.5 miles but i did do it in 27 minutes so speed session done for this week. I was wadin...

Mind over matter

9 Nov 2014, 3:53 p.m.

Hello everyone , I hope you're all ok today . It's been great reading about all the fabulous running and training that has been going on all over the place in the past few weeks , really inspiring stuff. Me ? I have been  trying to decide how best to pl...

Oxford Half Marathon - smashe...

12 Oct 2014, 7:25 p.m.

Hello everyone. Look at this , no blogging for ages and then two posts in three days LOL . Well , I just wanted to share my excitment with you all because once again I am reminded why I love running so much . As you know I ran in the Oxford Half Maratho...

Like a kid in a candy store

10 Oct 2014, 6:40 p.m.

Hello . Yes I know , it is been a looooong time since I posted anything on here . I have been keeping up with all the things you realbuzzers have been up to and it never fails to inspire , i really mean that.  Me , I haven't stopped and i have been trai...

Orange Parkrun

31 May 2014, 3:34 p.m.

This morning I achieved another PB and i am feeling completely different about my running compared with a couple of weeks ago . In fact it has been a good week running-wise - PB at BUPA London last weekend and then a 23:12 at Milton Keynes Parkrun today...

BUPA london 10000

26 May 2014, 11:07 a.m.

Hello everyone. I hope you are all enjoying the long weekend despite the indifferent weather . At least we were blessed with some sunshine yesterday which helped what was a fantastic day of running . I am of course talking about the Bupa London 10000 , ...