Jog On

If you're feeling inspired, here's the mix I made for myself to soundtrack my shorter training runs. I saved it for the last 10K of the Marathon, but actually found that by then neither music, nor adrenaline, nor gels, nor spiritual enlightenment, was ever going to help me go any faster.

♫ 10KMIX (DOWNLOAD)

Fatlip - What's Up Fatlip?/Today's Your Day
Devin the Dude - What A Job
Devo - Whip It
Bloc Party - The Prayer (Does It Offend You, Yeah? Mix)
Feist - My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Mix)
Caribou - Sundialing
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Phoenix - North
Blur - Sing
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Vampire Weekend - Walcott
Hot Chip - Out At The Pictures
Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out
Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
QOTSA - You Think I Aint Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire
(Warmdown Bonus Track)

ENJOY!

Meine beine sind gefickt!

A massive, heartfelt thank you to everyone who sponsored myself, Dom and Harriet, aka Team G.B. this weekend.

Despite an unabated rainfall, anxiety-fuelled insomnia, a ludicrously early wake-up time, blisters, chaffing, bowel-turmoil and not to mention the stupid matter of 26 miles between the start and the finish, I managed to get round in 4:09:58.

More importantly, we managed to raise over £4,000 for the Gideon Baws Memorial Fund, which is brilliant and makes it all worthwhile. Our legs might not be happy, but we are. I hope we did Gideon proud.

Very special thanks to the Berlin support team, who came out with a hand painted banner to cheer us on in the cold rain. Thanks also to our great friends at RunDemCrew who enthusiastically eased the task of 18 weeks of training. I doubt very much we could have done it without them.

(the smiles pictured are lies)

My shins

Long time since I posted. Been way too distracted with work, offspring and mortgage applications to be 'socially interacting.' Screw that!

And any scraps of free time have been dedicated to a kamikaze mission: a week Sunday I'm off to Germany with my good friends Harriet and Dom to run the Berlin Marathon. I never thought I'd be able to run a marathon and with 10 days to go I'm still to be convinced.

So far we've been training for 17 weeks. One word: Fucking Relentless. I must say that the canal-ways of Hackney, while occasionally stunning and always fascinating, have become unimaginably tedious. When we hit the starting line we'll have covered 430 miles in preparation.

I've got shin-splints, scabs on my nipples, a missing toenail and ankles that creak like a crap pirate ship. But it's all for a great cause; while thousands of gym-dorks run around half-heartedly collecting money for arbitrary charities, we really mean it, man. We're raising money for the Gideon Baws Memorial Fund.

We've joyfully smashed our target already, but if you feel inclined to contribute anything to a cause that is, needless to say, very dear to our hearts, then please do. HERE

Thank you KX