The Next Challenge

Tag: Running

  • Typical expenditure for running a Tube line

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    One of the things I enjoy most about my latest challenge – to run the length of every Tube line in London – is its simplicity. And part of that is the low running cost (note the pun). Thus I present to you today the expedition budget for a typical day spent running the length…

  • 50k (The Gatliff Marathon)

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    “50k?”, shouts the skinny man running towards me in tiny shorts and a flourescent vest.“50k!”, I cry in return before wading into the river. Well, it’s more of a flooded field than a river but it certainly looks like the latter and, as it rises across my shins, over the knees and up my thighs,…

  • Running the Tube

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    Over the course of 2010, I will be running the length of every London Underground train line. I started yesterday, going about 14 miles or so around the route of the Circle Line. – How? Let’s use the Victoria Line as our example. I”ll “touch-in” with my Oyster card at Brixton then turn around and…

  • Life in the fast lane – Guest Blog: Alastair Humphreys

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    It gives me great pleasure to introduce today a guest blog from someone who, although he may not be aware, has been pivotal to me in many ways: Alastair Humphreys. I read Al’s blog all the time but I’ve also read his books and know that he has a wonderfully creative way with words. So,…

  • Mile Diary #2 – I wrote it in Comic Sans

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    I assume the walls were once cream but now they’re a mosaic of scuff marks from black rubber and grubby patches where sweaty palms rested and slick finger tips gripped. The strip-lighting and low ceiling don’t do it any favours either. Nor, for that matter, do the two guys lying on the floor grunting like…

  • 16.5%

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    A current ran up my right leg, passed through my abdomen, dropped down the other side and exited my body. It left no damage except to my ego. It was a biometrical impedance analysis or “thing that looks like weighing scales and tells you what percentage of your body is fat”. Mine was 16.5%. That…

  • Mile Diary #1 – Not enough lycra

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    Warning: This article contains references to, and discussion of, the term “chafe”. Those under 18 and/or of a weak constitution are advised to seek advice before reading Why does this always happen? I’m late. Cycling through rain back from Guildford. On the train back from London. Discussing the terms of another voluntary position (are any…

  • Women can’t run marathons – Part III

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    This women-running-marathons-thing was only supposed to be a brief entry but when I started writing about it I found myself feeling quite strongly about the implications so here is a third instalment: Raise your hand if you have ever completed a triathlon. It’s probably not many of you and that’s even considering the cohort of…

  • Women can’t run marathons – Part II

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    This women-running-marathons-thing was only supposed to be a brief entry but when I started writing about it I found myself feeling quite strongly about the implications so here is a second instalment: In the TV show Daredevils last week, an “expert” made the following statement: “A marathon, in istelf, is an endurance feat which most…

  • Coast-to-Coast photos

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    Here are some snaps from the triathlon I supported last month: If the window above doesn’t work then have a look here instead.

  • Women can’t run marathons – Part I

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    Did you know that there was no women’s marathon in the Olympic Games until 1984? The men’s event, in contrast, was part of the inaugural “modern Olympics” in 1896. Women had, of course, run marathons before that but not without a lot of effort – and I don’t mean the running. Under the assumption that…