XC pubs

Ok so I’ve been bad at keeping this up-to-date. A lot’s happened since I last updated. I ran the Brighton 10K in mid-November in 40.21 – almost achieving my goal of breaking 40m. I WILL do this in 2008.
This year I’ve started with the 7.5m XC in Lloyd Park (heavy going), a speed session on [...]

The George comes up trumps again

A couple of visits to the George this week and I’m impressed. Their selection of bitters included Mooorhouse’s Black Cat, Hobson’s Mild and Harviestoun’s Bitter & Twisted. Hobson’s Mild at 3.2% recently won the Best Beer award at the Great British Beer Festival at Olympia. It had run out on the Thursday that I visited [...]

Strider’s innaugural Hash

When Phil & Susan decided to organise a Hash from the Bull Inn at Chelsham on Bank Holiday Monday I couldn’t not do this – the pub being a two minute jog from home. I rolled up at 11.00am to find a few Striders outside the pub – still after Phil explained the rules and [...]

Summer Lightning

Wisely took 5 days off after Henfield. Behaved myself in the main last week but lost it at Ghostrider’s leaving do at the George. My drink of choice was Hopback’s Summer Lightning. Probably not that wise at 5.0% but as their promotional blurb says it’s a perfect summer ale.

GBBF & progress last week

Sunday 5th saw my first 1.30 club run. Trying to get more miles in the legs for Nottiigham. we covered approx 10 miles so still some way to go for me.
Tuesday 7th – Speed session of 12 x 350. Good training for the Belgrave TriandRun 5k coming up on Sunday
Thursday 9th – HBB, Parson’s [...]

A better week

With 7 weeks til Nottingham I realised I needed to start training more seriously.
Last Saturday I went out for 65 minutes at about 8min mile pace.
Monday was an incredibly slow 3 miles running home from Upper Warlingham station
Tuesday was the Striders 5 x 4 mins speed session with 1 min rest interval. Then a slow [...]

Labenne Ocean

Well I didn’t get as much running done as I’d planned. I managed to knacker my lower back for the first ten days of the holiday. Got flipped over in the surf and my aged back gave way. Sick Mick recovered enough to run along the Boudigau and up to Labenne Ocean church. Now I’m [...]

Organic cider is the new favourite

A depressing day at work with one resignation, and rumours of more, is not the thing you need when you’re trying to cut down your drinking. Most of the team attempted to have lunch in the poncey gastropub The Thomas Cubitt.
Naturally on a Friday lunchtime it was overly packed so we gave up and ventured [...]