

Once and Future Ultra
I prefer test cricket to the shorter forms of the game. It has a narrative heft that one day cricket or T20 simply cannot match. Six...


Remarkable Possibilities
With apologies to Emil Zatopek, if you want to experience life, you should not run a marathon; you should pay a 4am visit to the...


Fifty Miles of Sun: The South Downs Way 50 Ultramarathon
In his bestselling book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes how our memories of lengthy events can be...
Cheating is not the only way
Before this week I hadn’t heard of Natasha Argent. I kind of wish I still hadn’t. On Monday morning, she came to my attention as having...


Measure for Measure: Manchester Marathon Manqué
The Glamis castle porter in Shakespeare’s Macbeth says that drink provokes desire, but takes away the performance. So it is with the...
Little Stoke, Big Joke
I wish it was a joke, but apparently it’s not. It’s no secret that I’m a runner, a running evangelist even. I like running. I like other...


Why do you have to be a Heartbreaker?
Sometimes, one should pay more attention to the races one books. Just a few seconds thought about this race’s name might have saved me...


Corbyn or not Corbyn? That is the question.
How will I vote in the Labour Leadership Election? Having been a card-carrying member of the Labour Party for around 20 years, I’ve taken...


Is an ultra-runner a thing?
In the American sitcom Parks & Recreation, Rob Lowe plays an impossibly positive state auditor called Chris Traeger, who runs 10 miles...
Ruislip Woods in June
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