Blog Posts about marathon

Earlier this year we introduced a blog series written by John Gilbert about his experience of running in the Marathon for the London Olympic's Test Event. In this second blog, John describes yet another unique marathon experience, this tim...

A blog series written by John Gilbert about two of his more unusual marathons.... My name is John Gilbert. I am a long distance runner who competes regularly for Kent AC, mainly specialising in cross country and marathon running. In the sp...

Beautiful day for a 50km run through the streets of Westminster, and the Royal Parks. Things were going well, and I was consciously sandbagging my HR, focusing on just getting to the 40km mark at Hampton Court, 45km at Kingston and then in...

Let’s face it, the weather has been fairly soggy lately. This post was inspired by my Saturday morning parkrun which reminded me of why I now love to run in the rain! This hasn't always been the case, the thought of frizzy hair and damp f...

Wow thanks to commentor yesterday reminding of this blog but due to work and martial arts testing I've neglected to update this in LONG time! Tested and ranked up in Tang soo do and tai chi, ran a marathon in 4:38, ran a 5k in under 25 min...

In fact here I am now! It's been a while since I've blogged, but I thought that it was about time that I got back to it. I've been away fraternising with marathon running and had one good experience (Florence Marathon) and one Bad (Copenh...

This isn't one for the squeamish but I think it's a post which is long overdue. Having come 2nd last year in my long-distance race (the DW - 125 mile non stop canoeing race), we realised very quickly that had we not stopped so many times t...

6 weeks since my last post. Why? Because nothing has been happening. Training has been virtually non-existent, and I think I've been in the pool once - although I may have dreamt that. Again. Why? What's changed? Work. I took a ne...

This blog-thing is pretty handy, in terms of recording your thoughts and prepping for next year. Obviously, I finally managed to puke up a race report for Henley. Yeah, that race was tough, and I was under-trained but it was still an ac...

The news this week was just as I expected when i heard Will was missing. After 25 hours, the 17 year olds body was found, following his capsize during a run-of-the-mill race in Richmond, on Sunday. The newspapers published a load of rub...

Boston happened. An attack on an international community, on American soil. Over one hundred injured, dozens maimed, 3 dead. Lives destroyed. Families ripped apart. Horrific. Rewind 24 hours, and I was at a BBQ being reminded that I...

Suddenly it's the middle of March. The Virgin London Marathon #VLM is 4 weeks away, the Outlaw Half (70.3) is 10 weeks and the BIG one - Challenge Roth is only 17! Not sure why I'm surprised to be honest. It's the same every year. You cho...

They say, "INTRODUCING THE UK’S TOUGHEST, MOST REWARDING TRAIL MARATHON CHALLENGE" From the creators of HellRunner™ comes The Helly Hansen Beauty and the Beast. A measured off-road trail marathon taking place at Stonor Park, near Henley o...

It's already been almost a month since I last posted so here's an update of where I am now... After the Manchester Marathon injury I decided not to run the Edinburgh marathon either. It's not like me to play it safe but I didn't want to ...

Result: DNF Splits: 10K - 00:43:08 10miles - 1:10:53 Woke up 6:45 feeling really good. Had breakfast of porridge with honey, seeds and fruit (Yum). Looked out the window and the weather was shit. Hard rain, hard wind, gloomy clouds l...

It's just a day before the start of the race which has occupied my every waking moment for the past few weeks and every training session for the past 6 months. But I'll no longer be on the start line. It has been a tricky couple of weeks...

Spring Ballbuster Duathlon 2012 8 mile Run, 24 mile Bike, 8 mile Run My first time at this event, and it's one that I've been too intimidated to enter for years. Maybe it's the fact it's that two 8 mile runs, interspersed with a b...

Just when my training schedule should be stepping up, I've had almost 2 weeks of virtual inactivity on the training front. I've managed a couple of runs, a couple of gym sessions and a swim, but that's nowhere near what I should be doing at...

6 months since my last post, 'It's all Mental' Yowza! What's been happening? Well, I went from that to Challenge Henley in September, courtesy of Swimovate, averaging only 6 hours a week training; it's not that I wanted to train as lit...

I've been looking over my Triblogs training diary this week, and although I knew that life, illness and injury had gotten in the way of my training for The Outlaw iron distance Triathlon, I don't think I'd stopped to realise how much. I...