Last week I said I wanted to shave off another couple of minutes to get my personal best under the magic two hours. Well, today I achieved it… Just. It really was a beautiful day in Brighton. No wind. Sunshine. Lots of very keen and polite competitors. And a relatively flat course, which went mainly…
So what else do you do on a winter’s morning in New York? I have been in the city for work for the last few days and saw that the New York Road Runners were holding one of their five annual Half Marathons. (They run one in each of the Boroughs as well as organising…
It was very cold and very blustery this morning in Watford. This was my first Half Marathon of the year and formed part of my training for the Paris Marathon, to be held in April. The Watford course is a tough one. Lots of hills. But I managed to run the whole way round and…
It isn’t often that one sees something quite as appalling as this, other than in the pages of the worst tabloid newspapers. However, this evening, Chiswick decided to develop her role of femme fatale to a new level by posing for the camera in a peculiarly provocative way. Her daughter immediately left the room to…
My brother Joe and his wife Trish are now the very proud parents of Jack Patrick, born today in Newcastle, New South Wales. Jack Patrick shares his birthday with his grandmother in England – (good timing for the perfect birthday present for his granny!) His grandmother in Australia says he looks like me. Not sure…
Today was the day I did something I thought I’d never get to do. Twenty years ago I eschewed the stage to become a teacher, so dashing any hope of performing at the National Theatre. But today, as part of the UK Career Academy Foundation’s “Capital Experience”, we took over the Olivier stage and auditorium…
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Last day of walking today. And what a day. I started by getting a lift from Middleton to just above High Force as I knew that my legs wouldn’t quite manage the full 21 miles. 15 seemed a bit more sensible! The first stage of the walk was a wonderful saunter along the banks of…
It was raining as I got up this morning. This tipped the scales firmly in favour of a day off. But in fact, by the time I’d caught the bus to Barnard Castle, the sky was beginning to clear and I enjoyed a day in the pretty little town as a tourist. First stop was…
This walk has allowed me to experience a whole range of terrains and today was no exception. A relatively short yomp today – nine miles and over by lunchtime – but my first chance to have a go a real bog trotting. The route from Tan Hill took me over Sleightholme Moor, a really unattractive…