The final day in New York. Another marathon weekend draws to a close as does the 2019 racing season for me. I now have no more races on the plan until 1st March 2020 and after a long season which pretty much began on the 27th November 2018 and went right through to yesterday, 3rd November 2019, it has been a long tiring year. It … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2019 – DAY 4: LEAVING NEW YORK
This post will be quite brief. Today was race day so I will post a separate New York City Marathon race recap. I have a rule when it comes to posting or making any decisions after a big race like this. Leave it 72 hours before doing anything regarding the race. That gives time for things to sink in and not post in the heat … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2019 – DAY 3: RACE DAY
After a long tiring travel day and expo yesterday in the NYCM Day 1 post, today was going to be more relaxing and getting things ready for the run tomorrow. I was also signed up to run the Abbott 5k Dash to the Finish which I was going to be using as a shakeout run. I didn’t have a great sleep, the room felt hot … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2019 – DAY 2: 5K DASH & RELAXING?
Time to head out to New York again, this time to run the 2019 TCS New York City marathon. This will be my third year running this marathon, New York is by far the best marathon I have run, hence coming back three times. This year I am travelling with my wife and daughter and then heading down to Florida for 10 days at Disney … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2019 – DAY 1: TRAVEL DAY & EXPO
With New York now less than 10 days away I guess it is time to commit to some goals for the race. Writing them down on here then sets them in stone and no backing out and its a beat down if I fail…. or this is just a rough idea of what I would like to do next Sunday. With the marathon, you can … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2019 HOPES & DREAMS
Well, this isn’t the blog I had planned to be writing about my three days in New York. The plan had been to blog daily about my time here and post race recaps from the Brooklyn Half Marathon and also the GFNY World Championship race, however, I was not able to take part in either race. During IRONMAN 70.3 MALLORCA last week, I tore my calf muscle … Continue reading A WEEKEND IN NEW YORK
In two weeks time, I will be riding in the GFNY World Championship New York Gran Fondo. This is a 100-mile bike race with over 8,500ft of climbing. It starts at the George Washington Bridge in New York, the route goes upstate to Bear Mountain and back again to finish in Fort Lee New Jersey. This race falls 8 days after Ironman 70.3 Mallorca and … Continue reading GFNY NEW YORK 2019 HOPES & DREAMS
With two weeks to go until race day I thought I would set out my goal for the Brooklyn Half Marathon. My goal is simple. I am going here to race, I have been targetting this race since I signed up for the NYRR Virtual 6 programme in March 2018. This was how I got my place in the race and has been a goal … Continue reading BROOKLYN HALF MARATHON HOPES & DREAMS
This is the third installment of the Hopes & Dreams series and seems to be getting a regular thing now, certainly before the bigger races anyway. In my previous posts, my hopes for TOKYO MARATHON were massively underestimated and for the MANCHESTER MARATHON, I completely changed my mind and didn’t run at all. So it’s fair to say when I set a goal, hope or dream its pretty much … Continue reading IRONMAN 70.3 MALLORCA 2019 HOPES & DREAMS
Now that I am close to completing my goal of running the 6 world marathon majors (just Boston remaining), I have been thinking about what I will do after I have ticked that one off. I am the type of guy who likes to have something to work towards. I don’t like signing up for one race, training for it, running it and then sitting … Continue reading THE SPEED PROJECT
The Cheshire Runner. 