The Road Ahead

I’ve had some time to think during the aftermath of the last event and I now know how the future will look with regard to training and racing. First, the training… I should point out up front that I havn’t been logging mileage in many years, I log time. 6 hours a week is a minimum, 7 hour is a good week, 8 hours exceptional. Above 8 hours and I’m usually getting too tired....

October 22, 2012 · 5 min · Matt Biggin

I think I needed to fail

Right, here’s the raw facts: Last weekend I attempted to run the Longmynd Hike which is a 50 mile race across some incredible landscape on the North Wales border. In short, I failed. I reach the 38 mile checkpoint and dropped. Since then I’ve done little but try and work out why. The specifics of what happened are that for the 5 miles leading up to me dropping out my feet began to really hurt …....

October 13, 2012 · 3 min · Matt Biggin

Honestly. Why barefoot?

Actually I wouldn’t describe myself as a barefoot runner. Minimalist is a better word because most of my time spent whilst running is in London and believe me you don’t want to be running barefoot round the streets of London. Minimalism is all about stripping back the superfluous and unnecessary. It can be as simple as leaving your GPS watch at home or in my case it can lead to a re-evaluation of what I want to put on my feet....

November 13, 2011 · 3 min · Matt Biggin

Recently spotted

I recently spotted this out running and thought it had some humour value. The same house where I found this also has the most amazing tree house and a WW2 pillbox which has been renamed “Pooh Corner”. I get the feeling that the kids that grew up there have long since flown the nest but clearly when they were at home they had some cool places to play.

November 13, 2011 · 1 min · Matt Biggin

Why would anyone run further than a marathon?

“Where next? Oh, over there I reckon. Right lets go. Yup, it’s this way. Left hamstring is feeling tight, need to keep an eye on that. Need to drink more water. Not hungry, must eat though. Drink more water. Is that a hotspot on my foot going to turn into a blister. Drink more water. Where is the next stop. Ah, round this corner. Excellent. Stop for a bit. 60 kilometres covered....

March 22, 2011 · 3 min · Matt Biggin