The Farm Park Incident (And the Shoes That Didn’t Work) After finishing the Morpeth 10K, I was still riding high from the buzz. But what I didn’t realise at the time was that I’d made a pretty common rookie mistake: I ran the race in brand new shoes. Just one day later, I went out for a run with my … Read More
C2GNR Part 3 – My first road race, Morpeth 10K.
Morpeth 10K – AKA The fly in the eye 05/08/2014 – Morpeth 10K marked my first ever road race. I parked in the event car park and got changed (which, if you’ve ever tried wriggling into running gear in the front seat of a car, you’ll know is a sport in itself). After a short walk to Race HQ, I … Read More
C2GNR Part 2- Running sensible
Couch to The Great North Run – Part 2 Fast-forward four weeks (or click my third-ever Strava activity – your call), and I was back out the door in my trainers. This time, I had one goal: don’t do anything daft. I kept it short – just 24 minutes of run/walk covering 1.8 miles. Sensible. Sensible enough, in fact, that … Read More
How to start running – end up at The Hospital
Part 1: The Couch to The Great North Run In August 2013, I decided to take up running. I didn’t have a plan, or a goal – just a gut feeling that something had to change. I work in IT, so not much physical movement in the day. After a steady climb on the scales, 14 stone on a 5-foot-8 … Read More
Who I am and how this all started… running that is.
Who I am and how I started running. Hi, I’m Kev and I would like to tell you a bit about myself and how I started running. Like most people I’m a bit average at everything, so fitness experts and grammar / spelling Nazis might find some of this stuff painful to read. I never liked running at school which … Read More