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The Monday Musings awards 2024
Me racing the tide in May 2024. Photograph: Jay BullockAND just like that, 2024 is done and dusted. For me personally the year started slowly, with a frustrating injury that took months to budge, but it ended up, after much patience from Jae Gruenke and her amazing fixing skills, becoming my biggest mileage year ever, just about pipping 2017, the year I started researching my book The Rise of the Ultra Runners.As promised last week, here are my key Strava Year in Sport stats:I won’t go on about

2024年12月23日

Getting it done on a cold Tuesday night (near Stoke Gabriel)
About a week ago, a clip on Instagram from the Rich Roll podcast caught my attention. It was an interview with ultra runner David Roche, who earlier this year broke the Leadville 100 course record - which had been set 19 years ago by the legendary Matt Carpenter. Roche was eulogising about how great it was to run in super shoes (the term given to, as he puts it in the interview, “those shoes with an advanced foam, that have a plate within them”.)He said they were “the ultimate delight”, and that

2024年12月09日

Mapping out the past and the future
Running has been ticking along nicely in my life these last few weeks. Since the Drogo 10, I’ve settled into a rhythm of running about 30 miles a week, mostly at a steady pace, just enjoying the space running brings me, the childlike fun of splashing and stomping along the muddy Devon trails.Four runs a week has been enough - just about - to keep me at a good level of fitness after the Ireland run, and I’m enjoying feeling easy and smooth on my runs, without too much struggle or stress.Am I fina

2024年12月02日

Resting under a blanket of tiredness
Running in Dingle with Kevin Leahy (left) and Dáithí de Mórdha.Did that all really happen? For weeks, every day I got up, had breakfast, filled my water bottles, checked my route, and then with a wave to Marietta and Ossian I set off on my merry way. At times it was exhausting, the hours could drag on, my body ached. But the road, or trail, was always out there, and moving along it was my constant. It was simple, all-consuming. It became normal.And then, just like that I stepped out of it, and i

2024年10月07日