“You don’t stop running when you get old; you get old when you stop running”Never was this better illustrated than by the membership of Felixstowe Road Runners,Suffolk’s quietly growing running success story. Of its...
Some 50yrs ago aged just 5yrs old I had a drowning accident whilst staying at a caravan holiday park on a family holiday. The accident happened when I fell head first in to a...
On the 23rd August 2015 I suffered a cardiac arrest. Since then I’ve done everything I can to promote education around cardiovascular disease and CPR. On the 3rd April 2016 Gary Jarvis and I...
My training has taken a real hit of late. This has been a combination of my commute getting me in to Ipswich too late to get over to Felixstowe, my diet not settled with...
Prelude Quote from my last blog post I’ve got the Coastal 10 next, so will need to put a little bit of distance work in before then… let’s get to work! From Robert Burns’ poem To...
In 2016 I marshalled the Twilight races; sat out in the far reaches of tumbleweed country (aka the football stadium tunnel). To be fair I had a great time. They’d failed to get the...
I’ve been quite busy recently, so missed the chance to get my Ekiden report in, in my usual timely manner. So here it is… bolted on to my Brantham 5 report. Ekiden is a...
I’ve not even run 100meters since Woodbridge. I had planned to take in an easy Brandon parkrun on the 19th May as we were on a brief holiday at Center Parcs, however one of...
I’ve run Woodbridge 10k three times already. So when Robin popped this on the list I was elated and relieved; not that there was ever any doubt. This is a favorite event for FRR,...
So I’m now a third into the selection Robin has made for me. This is the last long run on the schedule (if you don’t count the Coastal10), and right up to the start...
