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Perhaps it's my age, but I find myself becoming irrationally angry when I see a child on a motorised scooter or mini-buggy or somethi...

As I was cycling to work this morning and enjoying the change in the seasons that was apparent in the cooler air, it occurred to me that ...

One of my old running buddies asked me today if I had an opinion on the existence of women only races. This is “Race for Life” season, and ...

Nottingham was absolutely gridlocked this evening.  Traffic has been bad for much of the last two years because of the ongoing tram works th...

I've been cycling to work for nearly a year now, and in all that time, I think I've only used my car to get to the office twice - b...

No. I went to the gym this evening for a swim.  I arrived feeling smug already after cycling past enormous queues of people stuck in tr...

Since I’ve been cycling to work, I’ve naturally been spending a lot more time in the locker room at work. I’ve had a locker there for a ...

As far as I'm aware, no actual comparative measurement of penis size happens in the changing rooms at work.  I've had a locker there...

At the end of this evening's 5.33 mile run with Running Club, as we were both stretching off, a girl told me that she always thought I ...

I'd promised myself a sauna as motivation to get myself to the gym for a swim.  I dragged myself through the water for 44 wearisome l...

I don't know about you, but when I get changed at the gym, I tend to keep things simple: I don't sit around in my pants and socks ch...

Justgiving sent me an email the other day saying that they were closing down my site for donations.  I know the little widget showing sh...

I was out running at about half-ten on Saturday morning. It was my usual four-and-a-bit miles around and, like most of the runs that I’ve ...

I took one of my colleagues to Sweatshop over lunch the other day to get her a new pair of running shoes.  We often go running together at ...

It’s Fresher’s Week at the University of Nottingham this week. This means that not only was the supermarket full of students, many squeezin...

Well, that's that done then . My official time was 1 hour 56 minutes and 22 seconds. That's exactly 30 seconds faster than I ra...

Runner's World (@ rwchallenge ) tweeted an interesting link today: "Get skinny get faster? Maybe, maybe not. http://ow.ly/5N7Ym ...

In 2009, LB, C and I raised over £3,000 for the MS Society by running the Robin Hood Half Marathon.  It's taken me about two years to r...

About halfway through a 6 mile run on Saturday, I was running along a canal towpath when I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my left foot. At f...

The clocks moved forwards this weekend and British Summer Time began. It never fails to amaze me how many people think it's suddenly w...