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Preston Harriers 10M Road Race

Unlike the hills, for a road race I reckon you want an unremarkable course - flat, minimal changes in direction, laps maybe and just enough scenery to avoid tedium. ‘Unremarkable’ because ‘boring’ is the wrong word. With nothing else…

warm-up act of Great Scottish Run

First, a hearty Thanks! to Ian the Westy Sec, without whose offer of a free place in the Glasgow 10k this posting - and my latest 10k slog - wouldn't be.October (and autumn proper) arrived last weekend. I had to scrape ice off the wee blue car…

Balloch to Clydebank Half Marathon 2016

The most irritating sort of disappointment? The avoidable sort. Once you’re at the start line of the race what’s going to happen is going to happen – you’ll get the result that whatever training you’ve done warrants.…

Grim battles the Grinch

This race has changed somewhat since I last ran it 3 years ago. The pre-start ballyhoo in George Square has if anything got worse; the 10k entry is now so numerous that the start is in London Marathon-style "waves"; the timing chip is now incorporated…

London Marathon

After a "rest" of 31 years, Dave Calder has run another marathon, read report here: http://bit.ly/1H7iRxZ

Balloch to Clydebank Half-Marathon 2015

Well that's a new one - a race that went better than I expected.   I'd been getting some decent training in recently, but an unexpected trip North at the end of the week, a couple of late nights/early starts and a fair few hours slumped…

Glasgow University 5M Road Race

What are the pleasures of road racing? There are retrospective ones. A good time with a solid placing. Satisfaction of a race well ran – nerve held, plans stuck to and opponents dealt with. A wry chuckle at how absurdly difficult it felt…

Coniston 14

My marathon training never really got off the ground this year. I managed to miss out on the usual half marathon races, and was beginning to face the fact that a few 10k plods along the Kelvin with the baby jogger wasn't exactly cutting the…

Leyland 10k & Lancaster 4k

Leyland Boxing Day 10k Results | Strava track I arrived at Leyland around 9am and quickly realised the car park surface was an ice rink. Runners were slipping and sliding at registration. I was quite surprised that nobody seemed too concerned,…

Glasgow Uni Road Race

Results My pre-race target had been 27 minutes something. But in the end nobody ran 27 minutes anything. After an impeccably observed minute's silence to remember the awful events of last night at the Clutha Bar, the race was underway. A front…