Saturday 16 May 2009

White Peaks "Swift Half" Marathon




Great day at the Swift Half Marathon in Matlock, meeting up with a whole load of interesting people including some members of the UK podcast/ blog family!


Check out Edition 30 of The Runners Roundtable at http://www.runnersroundtable.com/ where all the crew above gathered again to talk about this race (individual pics above left to right)



Top Row

Phil Moneypenny www.runcast.tv


Steve Chopper www.amilewith.me.uk




Bottom Row


Boo



Click here for my Garmin track - extra couple of km due to navigation error!




Thursday 14 May 2009

Mile-26- "Born to Run", in conversation with Christopher McDougall




"Born to Run" is the fabulous new book by Christopher McDougall, a journalist who has written extensively for Runners World and Mens Health.
Its in part "Boys Own" adventure story, part a guide to the ultrarunning phenomena and part anthropological exploration of how we as human beings are quite literally Born to Run.
Chris's adventures take him ultrarunning with the remote Tarahumara tribe in Mexico, probably the greatest ultrarunners on the planet. We find out through the evolution of his story that distance running is what YOUR body was actually DESIGNED to do.. its its purpose!

Its a great book with the stories of some of amazing running companions, the greatest US ultraunners alive, who pit themselves against the Tarahumara in the Copper Canyons of Mexico. No less than Lloyd Bradley, author of The Rough Guide to Running describes it as "Quite simply the best book you'll ever read about running.. brilliant and brilliantly life affirming"

I was lucky enough to meet up and run with Chris recently across central London and through the Royal Parks. Join us and share our conversation about the creation of Born to Run and some of his great running stories.

The version of Springsteen's "Born to Run" was by Frankie Goes to Hollywood



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