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Victory Is Mine

I ran the Nike Run To The Beat half-marathon yesterday.  I’ve only done one half-marathon before, the 2005 Windsor Half Marathon, when I was a child-free 30 year old. As the colleague I was supposed to be racing yesterday dropped out, I decided to race my 2005 self.

In 2005 I ran the 13.1 miles [...]

Wildlife Photography – Gorillas at Port Lympne

Pip bought me a wildlife photography course for Christmas.  I went to Port Lympne in Kent, with Photographers On Safari.  We spent most of the day with the gorillas.

   

There were special feedings arranged for our group, and we were able to stand inside the outer walls – the same access as [...]

It’s a marathon, not a sprint

I completed the 2011 London Marathon in 4h 28m 51s.  That’s about three minutes faster than the last one (and the course was more congested this year, it was really hot, I was wearing a large nylon wig etc etc).

My target throughout training was 4h 20m (just under ten-minute miles), and I was more [...]

Come and support me on Sunday!

Come and support me on Sunday!

It really makes a difference.

I’m aiming for 4h 20m, but my last two have been between 4h 30m and 4h 40m.  So hopefully I’ll be somewhere ten minutes either side of a 4h 30m time.  The gun starts at 9:45, but I’ll probably cross the [...]

Almost at the start line

Almost there.  Last long run yesterday, 20.1 miles round Rotherhithe, Deptford, Greenwich, through the foot tunnel, Isle of Dogs, Canary Wharf, Wapping, over the Millennium (wobbly) bridge and back along the South Bank, Shad Thames and Bermondsey.

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It’s my birthday today.

We went here.  It was good, but the children were not.

Also, I’m on the final two-week marathon countdown, so today was my last drinking day until after the run.  But this cafe is unlicenced, so no beer for me!

I am now 37.

Still Running…

I’m still building up the miles and the pace for the marathon.  Only a month to go.

Here’s last weekend’s:

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Two Towers Climbed, None To Go

We did our tower climb at the weekend. All four of us finished – my time was 12m 3s – that’s 11 seconds a storey, or two stairs a second. I came 22nd overall, and our team came seventh (out of nine!). Here’s a video of the first tower climb… And some pictures…

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Stairway to Heaven

On Sunday 7th November, at 9:30, I and my ace stair-climbing team (four of us from work, plus Gin) will attempt the FT London Twin Peak Challenge.

This is a two-tower-run – we race up the stairs of both the Broadgate Tower and CityPoint from ground to penthouse.  That’s 67 floors, 1,512 steps and 935 [...]

Anniversary

It is Pip & my fifth wedding anniversary today. We are cooking each other dinner at the moment, Pip is just preparing the desert. We’re drinking five year old burgundy as well. We watched our wedding DVD with Laurie earlier. Indie wasn’t so interested. Pip wrote me a poem.  I was touched.  I shall share [...]