Special Christmas Offer! Sign...

6 Dec 2012, 4:27 p.m.

http://www.gofasterfood.com/book-review/special-christmas-offer-signed-copies-of-go-faster-food/ Go Faster Food Blog Special Christmas Offer! 30 Signed Copies of Go Faster Food available. Wondering what to give your athletic friends and family this Chr...

Easy artichoke risotto with l...

23 Oct 2009, 11:38 a.m.

Easy artichoke risotto with lemon zest and sage - fantastic healthy and tasty midweek training meal for stamina.....see my blog post @ Go Faster Food for the recipe.

Apple Power Pancakes with Spi...

21 Sep 2009, 11:29 a.m.

For the most delicious recipe for to power you through your training, see my new post on my Go Faster Food site - Apple Power Pancakes with Spiced Apple Syrup 

Book Signing -Go Faster Food

4 Sep 2009, 10:35 a.m.

Book Signing - Go Faster Food Come and say hello to me at Borders, Queen's Road, Bristol on Saturday 5th September, 11.30-12.30, especially if you're about to run the Bristol Half - I'll be offering advice on nutrition and recipes for training and sign...

Griddled lamb cutlets with ch...

2 Sep 2009, 9:43 a.m.

Griddled lamb cutlets with chickpea and sweet potato pilau We're getting to the end of the kids Summer holidays and stocks are getting pretty low. I've been delaying a big food shop in favour of much more interesting activities like long runs, bike ride...

Sticky Ginger, Date and Walnu...

27 Jul 2009, 11:33 a.m.

My 10 mile run yesterday was wet and windswept, yet for some bizarre reason it was the best run I've had in a long time. I felt really strong and managed to speed up for the whole of the last mile despite the howling gale into which I was running. I me...

American Blueberry Pancakes

21 Jul 2009, 11:30 p.m.

American Blueberry Pancakes I've been busy this afternoon making little lemon tarts and and a rather tempting-to-the-eye apricot tarte tatin...delicious. Well, they probably are, but they're for a friend so I mustn't touch unfortunately! We've had a re...

Running in the Rain

16 Jul 2009, 9:07 p.m.

Just had a fantastic run in the pouring rain. It was a bit liberating actually as I set off with no ipod and no garmin and just ran and ran, getting wetter and wetter. I got a bit pissed off when an Audi passed me at full speed and completely sprayed me...

Go Faster Food Giveaway

13 Jul 2009, 6:22 p.m.

Kirstie at Realbuzz has just launched a competition for my book -click here for the link - Realbuzz are very generously giving away 10 copies of Go Faster Food - each worth £12.99! Reviews of Go Faster Food have been really positive and extremely flatte...

Go Faster Food White Chocolat...

10 Jul 2009, 7:41 a.m.

Great 7 mile run last night with the Victoria Park Harriers Athletic Club followed by a talk to promote my book, Go Faster Food. Many thanks to the kind people who made the chocolate biscuit cake and the white chocolate chip brownies from the book. I ha...

Go Faster Food Launch

2 Jul 2009, 3:16 p.m.

My book is launched today - here's the Amazon link - Go Faster Food . Go Faster Food puts nutritional theory into practice with advice on how, when and what to eat for best athletic performance and tasty recipes to add a little zest to your training die...

Steve Cram and the Bristol Ha...

26 May 2009, 9:37 a.m.

I can hardly believe that a whole week has gone by without me writing a post about the brilliant talk/Q & A workshop given for the Bristol Half Marathon. It has been a busy week; my book Go Faster Food has become available for pre-order, I've been ...

Sweet Potato and orange soup ...

11 May 2009, 11:30 a.m.

Anyone who ran the Bristol 10k yesterday might enjoy this delicious and comforting...and cheap...soup tonight for supper. It is dead easy and quick to make and absolutely stuffed with goodness. Sweet potatoesare really high in anti-oxidants; they are a...

Carbo-loading for London - Ta...

19 Apr 2009, 12:27 p.m.

If you are carbo-loading for London this week then you won't go wrong with the meal I made last night - Italian in essence and really well balanced and delicious, high in low G.I. carbs, protein, good fats and minerals, including the all-important iron...

Bristol 10 k Training Camp

9 Apr 2009, 12:03 p.m.

Liz and Martin Yelling very kindly invited me to do a presentation at their training weekend for the Bristol 10k last Sunday to promote my book Go Faster Food. Liz Yelling has read the book from cover to cover, loves it and has written a fantastic forew...

37 miles

2 Mar 2009, 3:15 p.m.

It always sounds better when you add up your weekly mileage rather than count individual runs. My training for Stockholm is going to plan and I clocked up 37 miles this week, doing an average of 8.1 minute miles on my steady long run yesterday...not fas...

Pancake Day

24 Feb 2009, 5:59 p.m.

  Pancake day again. I must say that I wouldn't run a marathon on a pancake breakfast, but to me there is no better treat than a traditional pancake rolled up with lemon and sugar....great for this evening's post-workout treat!  We make so many differen...

Coriander and Mushroom Pilau

5 Feb 2009, 2:51 p.m.

I'm feeling a bit down in the dumps today. Not only do I still have a sharp pain in my achilles which is stopping me from training, but last night, as I rushed across the road in the dark, I managed to almost poke my eye out by running straight into th...

Gnocchi...really yummy recove...

19 Jan 2009, 4:16 p.m.

  I've been cooking gnocchi this week - simple comfort food at its best, whether you're in training or not. If you are in training, you need to recover quickly from your big workouts so that you can continue on that seeminglyrelentless schedule. It is r...

Oat Cuisine

5 Jan 2009, 11:27 a.m.

  Happy New Year and welcome to 2009! I am very excited about 2009 - my book is coming out in July, I have great plans for two further recipe books, I am signed up to run the London and the Stockholm marathons and I am on target to qualify for Boston i...

Melt-in-the-mouth Christmas b...

18 Dec 2008, 11:05 p.m.

Greek Biscuits: My daughter is turning out to be a bit of an intellectual and a linguist. She is, in fact, just about to do her GCSE in Ancient Greek...something which I remember attempting only for about a term. Her lovely teachers held a 'Classical' C...

11 miles fuelled by saffron rice

3 Dec 2008, 9:28 p.m.

Now my book is more or less written - just adding the finishing touches before I send it off to the publishers next week - I have a little more time to get into some training. It is time to slowly start to build up my fitness for London next April. I am...