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  • The Invisible Runner

    It’s strange; I remember very little of the marathon, even a short time after finishing it. The very start, where i went far too fast. Running behind Marina Bay Sands is something I think I remember, although that may just be baseless conjecture. The last few hundred metres, jogging as hard as I could through […]

  • Sundown Marathon 2017

    This morning I ran the Sundown Marathon. It didn’t go quite the way I was hoping, but I think I did better than expected, in that I did at least finish. And I got the highest score I’ve ever had in a marathon – never got over 4 hours before! Ahem. I guess personal bests […]

  • Waiting for a number

    Tonight after work I went to collect my number for the marathon. I’ve done this lots of times before, in Singapore and round the world. The organiser rents the biggest hall they can find, fills half of it with vendors selling running-related tat, and the other half is full of volunteers handing out race numbers […]

  • Bad night

    Tonight was hard. I was meant to do a long run tonight, didn’t have the will to get out, spent too long vacillating, and finally dragged myself out only to get less than a mile into it before packing the whole thing in, feeling incapable of running for half an hour, let alone for a […]

  • Marathon training – week 10 of 14

    I think this was a better week than last week. It’s a bit hard to say, looking back on a Sunday night where I ran for 2 hours and 20 minutes and still didn’t go as far as I was meant to. Looking at Training Peaks, I was therefore surprised to find I only ran […]

  • Akira Road Relay 2017

    Just as for the last three years, this afternoon I headed off to Bedok Reservoir for a 3.8km relay race, organised in fairly shambolic, yet very bureaucratic fashion. This time around I brought wife and kids (last year they stayed at home, and previously La Serpiente had accompanied me). Bedok is quite far out (in […]

  • Marathon training – week 9 of 14 – half measures

    I ran 6 hours longer this week than I did the previous week. Unfortunately, I was meant to run ten hours longer than I did last week, so we’re not exactly perfect at this point.

  • Today We Die A Little

    Two weeks ago, I finished reading Today We Die A Little, a biography of Emil Zatopek, the Czech runner, and it seems appropriate, now I’m lying on my bed with my legs aching from today’s run, that I get round to reviewing it.  I have three favourite books about Czechoslovakia; The Good Soldier Svejk, Under […]

  • Marathon training – week 8 of 14 – the week my heart skipped

    Last week was lamentable; I didn’t run once for the whole seven days. Now, that was partly because I lost a day stuck at the airport, and because I was at a conference for the rest of the week, and on a plane for 17 hours from Friday morning through til Saturday evening, but still […]

  • Marathon training – week 7 of 14 – the halfway point

    This was always going to be one of those weeks where the wheels might fall off. Usually when I fly to a different country, my running goes completely to pieces, so though I was only clocking about half the intended load, I’m still fairly content with the outcome. First, let’s talk about all that red.