Category: Sports and Training
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Steyning Stinger – Half Marathon – 2026
8th March 2026 Reading Time: Two minutes Nerdiness Quotient: Runners Only I do a little blog about the Steyning Stinger every year so it seemed a shame to just skip last weeks run. This will be my last run before I set off for my sail to Greenland. The picture sums it up – it…
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Deal Half Marathon 2026 – It’s Running Season!
12:30 Sunday 15th February 2026 Reading time: Four Minutes Nerdiness Quotient: Not very boaty My trainers always get taken on the boat but to be honest they are rarely used. By the time I moor up I just fancy a beer and a snooze. However, every year I do try to enter three Half Marathons.…
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Marlow Half Marathon 2025
2nd November 2025 C’est toujours la meme histoire. Every year since 2012 I have entered the Marlow Half Marathon. It is held near to Guy Fawkes Day and this year the rain stopped and the sun shone the whole way. The race is through gently undulating hills on tarmacked countryside lanes overhung with autumnal leaves…
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Steyning Stinger – Half Marathon – 2025
9th March 2025 Reading Time: Two Minutes I know, another boring running post. The problem is that I started posting about this wonderful run in 2014 and it would seem weird to stop now. It also becomes a tiny little bit interesting now that the data accumulates as it shows how much you slow down…
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Deal Half Marathon – 2025
16th February 2025 You may be wondering what half marathons have to got do with sailing. I first started running as part of my training to climb Beerenberg, the world’s most northerly volcano. I had been caught out a few years earlier when I joined a group of friends skiing the Haute Route. I soon…
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Marlow Half Marathon 2024
3rd November 2024 Reading Time: Two minutes It’s always the same story – never enough training! Last year I had just returned from the North West Passage and this year I had simply been sailing all summer. I don’t know why, but going for a run after a long sail simply doesn’t appeal nearly as…
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Steyning Stinger – Half Marathon – 2024
3rd March 2024 I hung my head in shame when I realised how slowly I had finished this half marathon. My slowest ever by a long chalk. It didn’t feel particularly slow, although I was pretty whacked out by the end. I had no injuries, I had a good nights sleep in the van, I…
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Deal Half Marathon 2024
As far as training goes, am fairly erratic on a day to day, or even a week to week basis, but on a yearly basis I am as regular as clockwork. “Consistency is Key!” is drummed into us by Ryan French who runs the excellent Military Outdoor Fitness group on Blackheath. Whether turning up for…
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Three Forts Challenge Half Marathon
30th April 2023 Reading time: Two minutes It is called “The Tough One” but, to be really tough, you would need to enter the full marathon rather than the slightly wimpy half version that we opted for. It is without doubt a very hilly trail run but the hills are not quite as grueling as…
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Steyning Stinger – Half Marathon – 2023
5th March 2023 The Steyning Stinger is now a well established annual institution and is my favourite race. It is a very hilly trail run with about 1,600 feet of ascent. For some reason, it is slightly longer than a half marathon at 13.68 miles and that extra .58 of a mile is hard work!…