Okay, okay… let’s get it over with… start the public flogging. The heading of this blog refers to my growing appendages caused by overeating.  I think I saw smoke trailing ...

It’s been a pretty good week as far as the training for the Farnham Pilgrims Marathon is concerned.  My week’s training consisted of the following:- Wednesday 6.5km (4.04 miles) in ...

Well, normally after a long run with my garmin I would be able to put a handy little widget on here that allows you all to see my run details. ...

First week of the marathon training schedule has been very successful.  Here is a summary:- Tuesday Called for 3 mile easy run at a 12:29 min/mile pace.  I did 3.10 ...

The Virtual Runner Running Forum has now been established!  What forum?  Why, the one I’ve been trying to set up off-and-on for years. A link to the forum is now ...

I’ve been taking a closer look at the training paces in the marathon training plan I got from runnersworld.co.uk.  The paces for the various runs seem to be a bit ...

As I am currently a ‘virtual’ runner in every sense of the word I will need to start moving on the whole training thing or I will be missing my ...

I couldn’t help myself.  I kept looking at him every chance I got.  I “googled” him many times to see what I could find out and was always admiring his ...

Well, I think I’ve narrowed down when and where my next marathon “attempt” will be.  Frankly, this event wasn’t my first choice for a second attempt but there aren’t that ...

I didn’t do the marathon.  I know, I know… I put in all that training! Everything was going well and we flew to Canada as planned.  However, the second or ...