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Book Review (by Fiona Milligan): Killian Jornet’s ‘Run or Die’
I recently bought and read Kilian Jornet first book 'Run or Die' which I really enjoyed. Fiona, my girlfriend, kindly wrote a book review on it. You can read her thoughts below, giving you a brief insight into the book. 'Kilian Jornet is one of the world’s top...
XC Racing – Winter Speed Work
I wrote a blog post on this last year and thought I would use this as a reminder to highlight how useful the Cross Country (XC) racing season can be to work on running speed over the winter. Over the last two winters I took part in the Borders XC Series held by a...
Mountains and Face Plants
I was going to write this post a couple of weeks ago before going into the Jedburgh 3 Peaks Ultra race, but time got in the way. Below are five short reports of the long training runs that I did in the period from end September to mid October, which I alluded to in my...
Race Report: Glen Ogle 33 (2013) – A Race Too Far
As with 2012 I had decided this year to race Glen Ogle 33 and Jedburgh 3 Peaks Ultra on consecutive weekends with only 5 days recovery in between. Last year this resulted in a 5th place at Jedburgh and a 13th place at Glen Ogle. This year I placed 7th and 46th...
Race Report: Jedburgh 3 Peaks Ultra – A tale of nutrition
The Jedburgh 3 Peaks Ultra, a 38 mile race, and the Glen Ogle 33 mile race are scheduled to be my end of season races. Jedburgh was last weekend (Oct 27) and Glen Ogle is this coming weekend (Nov 2). The plan was to do these as a bit of fun at the end of the year. I’d...
Riding on Empty
Riding on Empty ... well not quite, but yesterday's ride was a bit down that line. I went out for a 3 hour ride yesterday morning, actual ride time was just under 3 hours but I was out of the house for closer to 3:30 hours. I left the house around 10:30 am but got up...