This one is all over the place today. I have been feeling my age recently. Which is a right damn cheek when I see how well the Scottish Masters have done in the recent European Championships. Embracing it and kicking arse. My old training partners Forbesy and GG, my clubmates Chris, Dave, Colin and Jacqui, … Continue reading Help the Aged / Jurassic Mark – The Great Scottish Run 10k 2023
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“Great” Scottish Run
A two minute rant before I go out my lunch run. It’s October 2016. Callum Hawkins sets a Scottish Half marathon record. Behind him thousands of people run their hearts out having trained for months. I watch my running pals, proud of their achievements. But it counted for nothing. Great Scottish Run had measured the … Continue reading “Great” Scottish Run
Super Trouper – Linlithgow 10k, Great Scottish Run 10k, West District Cross Country relays 2022
Disclaimer: Ach chill out, it's just running. THIS POST HAS BEEN EDITED ON 19/10/2022 AFTER THE GREAT SCOTTISH RUN ANNOUNCED THE COURSE WAS YET AGAIN WRONG. To anyone who may read this mish mash of events welcome, come in, have a brew and let me irritate you. I know blogs are old fashioned nonsense and … Continue reading Super Trouper – Linlithgow 10k, Great Scottish Run 10k, West District Cross Country relays 2022
Spirit – The Great Scottish Run Half Marathon 2019
Apologies, first of all here is a wee rant before I get to the action. I will put a big RANT ENDED when the rant has ended so you can miss this bit out and carry on if you so desire. There will be pictures. So here is the problem with this blogging thing that … Continue reading Spirit – The Great Scottish Run Half Marathon 2019
6 Days – A week on the sidelines looking in
Disclaimers: OK it's 7 days including op day. But one day is the difference between DJ Shadow and Craig David so I'll take the pedantic hit for the sake of your musical threshold. There were no Wednesday shenanigans. I know people have long term bad injuries and illnesses etc, this is just me, tongue and cheek … Continue reading 6 Days – A week on the sidelines looking in
Once around the block – Great Scottish Run 10k 2016
One of my stupid aims that I give myself is to try and PB my core distances in each of my two racing blocks. My blocks are pre holiday, March - June, and post holiday, Aug - Oct. I tend to do a block of racing in each of these time windows. In the first … Continue reading Once around the block – Great Scottish Run 10k 2016
History part 10 – Hitting the targets.
Ibiza was all inclusive, and being an accountant I got my money's worth. Put almost a stone on but didn't care. Magic time. Took me a few weeks to work it back off and find my form again but at the end of July/ Start of August I felt I was training really well. The … Continue reading History part 10 – Hitting the targets.
History Part 7 – The jogscotland weeble
First things first and many of you won't know this but I am a very shy individual. Back in September 2012 I was low on confidence too. But myself and Jim joined jogscotland. It's a community running thing. It helps a lot of people. It helped me a lot but I won't pretend I loved … Continue reading History Part 7 – The jogscotland weeble
History part 5: My first GSR and the fallout.
So we entered for the Great Scottish Run 10k in Glasgow to be run the first week in September 2011. Did a few runs, nothing mad, then the week before it I gave parkrun a try again. I ran it like a man possessed, probably overstretching a bit but finished in a new PB of … Continue reading History part 5: My first GSR and the fallout.
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