Running For Others - Blog

I knew that today would pose a problem. It was obvious when walking home from my brother's house yesterday evening that the forecasters had not got it wrong. The icing sugar dusting of snow we had seen in the afternoon was now a plush carpet of...

Back in November I spotted a competition on the RunBritain Facebook page to win a new running app and a pair of headphones. All you had to do was say why you should be one of the winners so I posted: “This is the 1st winter I’ve run through...

Having finished work for the holidays, with the rain lashing down, the last thing I wanted to do was go for a run. My first winter of running was starting to be less fun. Dragging myself off the sofa with the thought of the £20 donation I’d...

On Sunday I reached a massive achievement in my running – I clocked up my 800th kilometre since I started my running challenge on March 27th. The 800 kilometres was my original target for me to cover in 12 months, yet I have managed to cover it...

As I explained in my first Running Bug blog post , my motivation to run regularly has come from raising money for charity (as well as trying to do something to keep fit). It's amazing how much drive I get from knowing that my running can...

Eight months ago I was a few days away from embarking on a daunting running challenge. My company had announced Maggie's Cancer Centres as our charity of the year and I wanted to do my bit - and what better way than to get myself running again. I...