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RUNNING: THE LOST CHRONICLES

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:41:00 +0100

Sorry for the lack of updates … but here’s my running round-up from July 2012 onwards:

Running was good
Then life was suddenly really, really sad =(
Then running stopped
Then running started again, but running was hard
Then I hated running and wanted to stab running in the tits
Then Amsterdam Half Marathon happened and it was good
Then Paris Half Marathon was signed up for
Then thoughts such as, ‘Ah this running lark is not so bad’ crossed my mind
Then Paris Half Marathon was just awesome
Then I liked running again

That basically brings us up to the present day. HIYA!

Run Dem Crew Greyhounds at the Arsenal Emirates Stadium last...

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:02:00 +0100

Run Dem Crew Greyhounds at the Arsenal Emirates Stadium last night - big ups @RasheedDauda for the pic and the amazing Paul @pb1million for leading the group. I’m the one with the lasers coming out of my back.

Emirates is defintely one of the toughest routes for me – long, dark, lonely stretches and inclines in all the wrong places – and I’m pretty sure I whinged all the way through but it was all worth it because I feel absolutely awesome today =)

If you find a lung left behind at Mile End track, please return it to me

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:03:13 +0100

I loved going track when I was at secondary school. I used to train at New River amongst the likes of Dwain Chambers, John Regis and Dalton Grant three times a week without fail, even though I wasn’t even doing that many competitions or anything.

Things I associate with those old school sessions:

Being fast
Fit boys
Happiness

Bearing all this in mind, I rocked up to Mile End track with RDC crew yesterday to re-live those glory days.

Things I associate with last night’s session:

Finding it so hard I wanted to DIE
Losing a lung
Depression

Aside from that, it was amazing. It’s gotta be done - this sub 2 hour Amsterdam half-marathon ain’t gonna run itself! The bastard.

Big ups Paul Bains RDC for leading the session =)

It's Party Time

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:45:31 +0100

rundemcrew2:

Come celebrate 4 years of Run Dem Crew at 1948 London.

runningtings: Family

Wed, 30 May 2012 15:06:32 +0100

runningtings:

Family

"Jessica Ennis, world class athlete who is in perfect shape is told she’s too fat – she’s competing..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:56:07 +0100

“Jessica Ennis, world class athlete who is in perfect shape is told she’s too fat – she’s competing in an Olympics where spectators are encouraged to gorge themselves on Big Macs and Cokes between events …”

- PREACH, BANGS!

From: Does My Bum Look Big in This Gold Medal? - Bangs & A Bun

Sponsor me and help Community Links

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:45:42 +0100

“A couple of hundred yards from the Olympic Stadium, the deprivation of Newham should undermine any sense of national ‘togetherness’ the establishment would like to foist upon us … Much has been made about the “regeneration” the Olympics will bring to a place like Newham, yet as part of the Coalition’s cuts, the borough’s local authority will see its funding from central government slashed by around £75million over the next four years.” Independent, 9 May 2012

Community Links is an amazing charity which runs a range of community projects to support thousands of local children, young people adults and families each year. Newham, Community Links’ home borough, has high levels of deprivation, poverty and unemployment, and the youngest population in the UK with over 40% of residents under 25.

But the charity has lost £3.5m worth of funding in the last year, which equates to about 1/3 of their overall income. They’ve had to close 10 community centres and make 25% of their staff redundant. As a result, Community Links is only able to help about half the children, young people, adults and families they were able to before.

I’m running the British 10K in July to help raise valuable funds for Community Links. If you can spare a pound or two, please sponsor me and help me help them xxx

too tired to even do proper gunfingers at the bupa 10k finish

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:59:32 +0100

too tired to even do proper gunfingers at the bupa 10k finish

just looking through my running calendar and WHY WHY WHY AM I...

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:43:16 +0100

just looking through my running calendar and WHY WHY WHY AM I DOING TWO 10KS IN ONE WEEKEND, WHY

Bupa London 10K. FML. Oh, and see you next year.

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:13:00 +0100

I’m not good in the heat.

I’m moody, I’m not nice to be around and, basically, I’m a total bitch. And in the heat, I’M EVEN WORSE!

See what I did there.

So, bearing all this in my mind, why would I go and FAST MYSELF UP and run a 10k on the hottest day of the year?

I cannot tell you. I cannot tell you.

What I can tell you is that I was so motherfugging hot that the whole sky felt like a iron set to its highest heat setting and at first I just felt like the ironing board but then I felt like the silk shirt that was being ironed, bearing in mind that the iron in this scenario is set to about seven notches higher than it should be for silk because silk is very delicate and rare and beautiful, like me. It was a nice silk shirt, you know. But what does it look like after all this? BURNT. DESTROYED. FINISHED.

These words perfectly describe how I felt running that bloody race. My body just shut down. It weren’t havin it bruv.

Actually it wasn’t the race’s fault. The Bupa London 10,000 is actually one of the nicest races I’ve ever done, incredibly well organised with a brilliant atmosphere. I think the route was nice but I can’t be sure because I was too busy hallucinating. But I definitely saw Mo Farah racing up the Embankment at 3 million mph while I was on the way down which was well good. All this may explain why I have decided to FAST MYSELF UP and enter the 2013 race just 24 hours after the 2012 one finished. Runner’s amnesia in full effect.

Anyway I crawled in at about 1h 6mins which is about, I don’t know, 150 MILLION MINUTES off what I was aiming for, but all good, another bit of gold in the bag!

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR YOU SADISTIC BASTARD

Photo

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:30:59 +0100

now reading

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:52:03 +0100

now reading

Gunfinger

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:48:11 +0100

rundemcrew2:

shutupandrun: @bridgerunners go hard. #ragnarcape @mrbluebish...

Sat, 12 May 2012 20:41:34 +0100

shutupandrun:

@bridgerunners go hard. #ragnarcape @mrbluebish (Taken with instagram)

so i’m doing the bupa london 10k again in may. don’t...

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:35:00 +0100

so i’m doing the bupa london 10k again in may. don’t even remember entering tbh, but it was amazing last year so let’s goooooooooo

film: king of the hill

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:34:30 +0100

film: king of the hill

Help me help Community Links =)

Tue, 08 May 2012 13:18:23 +0100

I’m running the British 10K London on 8 July for Community Links, a wonderful charity based in Newham, east London. They run tons of amazing projects for disadvanted people of all ages in the local community. They are good people.

If you have a few pennies or pounds spare then please sponsor me if you can to help Community Links carry on their fantastic work. Thank you xxx

SPONSOR ME FOR THE BRITISH 10K LONDON 2012

things that would not get it from me in the shower: RUNNING THROUGH PARKS

Fri, 04 May 2012 15:19:59 +0100

i like parks. i like how green and pretty they are and i like that when you walk through them in summer you look a TINY bit more fanciable to the opposite sex than you normally do and i like how you can lie on the grass and look into the sky and say stuff in your head like ‘LIFE, EH? LIFE. WHAT IS LIFE?’. parks are good.

but RUNNING through parks? running through parks is torture. it is never-ending. here’s a little known scientific fact: when you run through a park, the park NEVER runs out. when you run through a park, the rest of life stands still.

oh, you think that sounds romantic? well picture this: imagine you’re on a swing in a playground, swinging happily through the air. life is good for you. up, down, up, down. then up … and life suddenly stands still. life includes the aforementioned swing. now you’re being violently thrown through the air. you land on the ground. you break your neck. you die. THE REST OF LIFE STANDING STILL DOESN’T SOUND SO ROMANTIC NOW, DOES IT?

it’s the same for running through parks, exactly the same. that’s what i’ve been trying to tell you all this time. parks would not get it from me in the shower.

nobody tells me what to do

Fri, 04 May 2012 15:00:00 +0100

this nike bench in brazil is inscribed with the word ‘corra’, which roughly translates as ‘no bitch, no you AIN’T sitting down to rest bitch, keep moving, keep moving you lazy bitch’. it’s a great bench.

i would still find a way to sit on it though. i’d go and get a plank of wood from the local DIY shop and lay it across the bench and then get a duvet and some popcorn and a glass of wine and i’d lie on it looking really happy and when those smug nike executives came by to admire their crazy award-winning work, i’d be like ‘WHAT? WHAT? SAY SOMETHING! SAY SOMETHING NOW!’

nobody tells me what to do, bruv. i’m like pugwall and shit.

"If you didn’t sit behind a desk all day, you wouldn’t have to bloody run, would ya"

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:18:00 +0100

“If you didn’t sit behind a desk all day, you wouldn’t have to bloody run, would ya”

- things shouted out at run dem crew by passers by # 2