Edinburgh is a city where I’ve run in all types of weather; from glorious sunshine in January to downpours in May. This year, for my first Edinburgh Marathon, the forecast looked distinctly like the latter. When the organisers sent out a weather warning the day before, I had all but given up on my target … Continue reading Edinburgh Marathon 2015
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t may not be the most famous or the most glamorous ultra marathon in the world, but the “Rennsteiglauf” over the hills of the Thuringian Forest is certainly Europe’s biggest, with more than 2000 finishers every year. Despite these numbers, it has kept many traditions and quirks that date back to its East German roots, … Continue reading Rennsteiglauf 2013
Dougie Nisbet … The best thing about offering someone a lift to a race is that when the alarm goes off at 5AM, you can’t just think, sod it, I’m going back to sleep. You’ve just got to haul yourself out of bed and try and get excited about whatever it was you entered a … Continue reading Wensleydale Wander
After the forecast promised gusts up to 50 mph, rain and sleet all day, and “nil chance of cloud free summits”, doubts started to creep in. However, a quick phone call to Dave, who was going to pick us up at 5 AM the next morning reassured us that we’d be all right – just … Continue reading Haworth Hobble
Many thanks to Pam and Paul for organising a great run and walk on Sunday! Twenty or so Striders and guests turned up at the car park in Allensford, which somehow managed to be both icy and slushy … a sign of things to come. Paul Foster lead us along a beck to the west, … Continue reading Pam’s Sunday Social Run
Two weeks after the Oktoberfest, the streets of Munich are once again full of people: runners for the 27th edition of the Munich Marathon, which also doubled this year as the German championship. Ulrike (not a Strider, but known to some as winner of last year’s Court Inn Clamber) and I arrived in Munich on … Continue reading Munich Marathon