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An Irresistible Providence: South Downs Way 100

The 2021 South Downs Way 100 ultramarathon, and the end of my Centurion Grand Slam journey.

Chain Hill aid station came into view like an oasis in the desert of mud

This kind of thing’s never been attempted before, and may never be again.

For much of the time when I’m running, my attention is taken up by how my body is feeling. My feet in my shoes, heart in my chest, my...

My experience on the first running of the Convergence ultra event in 2018.

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...

In his bestselling book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes how our memories of lengthy events can be...

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...

The Glamis castle porter in Shakespeare’s Macbeth says that drink provokes desire, but takes away the performance. So it is with the...

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...