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The Power of Athletics

Here we are just two days into the World Athletics Championships and its already been an enthralling, exilerating and sometimes painful watch. Yesterday was great and thanks to the delight of modern technology, I watched the last 5 mins of Mo's race on a mobile phone sat in the middle of a car park in rural Northumberland. The bloke sat eating his dinner in a caravan parked close by must have thought I was bonkers sat shouting at the phone. But Mo triumphed after a bumpy season and a very bumpy 10k race too. The action in the Heptathlon was also superb and Dominic had been up at foolish o'clock to watch the early action and it was great to watch the highlights later to see Jess & KJT at the top of the tree. Now, I'm proud to say that after 44 years, I've never ever got up in the wee small hours to watch a sporting event. We've had England football matches at daft times in World Cups but I've never watched them. I've occasionally stopped up late to wa...

The Blaydon Race Blog

A bit belated I know, but eventually I've got around to blogging about Blaydon. As people who know me will know, me and Blaydon have never got on - I've done the race 3 times before, but never enjoyed it. 2010 was my first go and I hadn't trained anywhere near enough and I hadn't appreciated how much of a try hard race it was. 2012 was the year that it chucked it doon and Scotswood Road was under watter, which is nee good for gadgees like me with glasses on. 2014 was a bit traumatic too as it had been me Nanna's funeral in the afternoon, so wasn't in the best frame of mind. Having said that, each year had seen progress time wise from an awful 82 mins (& 3rd last in 2010) to 64 mins in 2014. This year was a little different though as Wor Bri was also doing Blaydon - now if yer divvent knaa BRI, he's our #gancanny coach and still running into his early 80's. It's fair to say that he's part of my running inspiration, as well as being our c...