Hasan Patel has been a huge champion and supporter of the Green Heart Runners, a great support to me personally, and has become a good friend. Hasan writes about his experiences of running and how he gets benefits from solitary running in a social setting. RR I have always enjoyed the solitary side of sport.Continue reading “Combining the solitary with the social”
Category Archives: Running
Woods Obstacles Lakes Fields (The Wolf Run)
So to the Wolf Run. The Wolf Run is an off-road, muddy, obstacle-strewn 10k running event. And it is muddy. Really muddy. Trainer-losingly muddy. And Wet. There are four Wolf Run weekends each year, two in Warwickshire and two in Leicestershire, and they’re named after each of the seasons. WOLF is actually an acronym forContinue reading “Woods Obstacles Lakes Fields (The Wolf Run)”
Running with dignity
The sheer generosity of human spirit and the causes for which runners raise money, overwhelms me at every running event I enter. I’m amazed at the lengths to which people will go to in their fundraising efforts. I’m especially in awe of people who don’t find running easy, but have committed to completing something whichContinue reading “Running with dignity”
The view from the back
This is a post from my first guest blogger, Sally Brooks. Quite simply, Sally is a joy to run with. A Green Heart Runners regular, she brings a positive attitude every time, has a great sense of humour, and, as you’ll see below, has achieved more with her running than she ever thought she would.Continue reading “The view from the back”
A typical Green Heart Runners session
So what does a typical Green Heart Runners session consist of, I hear you ask? Faintly. Arrival We all arrive just before 5.30pm on Tuesday evening and congregate outside the main library. When Old Joe* bongs we move to a wide path between two of the newest and sparkiest buildings on the Green Heart –Continue reading “A typical Green Heart Runners session”
Come-back Run
Today marked the come back on the marathon training schedule. After 3 weeks of feeling under the weather with a chest infection, and a couple of shorter sessions, this was the return to double-digit running. And didn’t I choose the day for it! Storm Dennis was alive and well. First it threw it down, thenContinue reading “Come-back Run”
Green Heart Runners – eight months in
Since the turn of the year we have welcomed many more runners to our little club. This has been the result of a bit of internal marketing in various staff newsletters, word-of-mouth, and January being a good month to try new things. From an average of 10-12 runners in November/December we’re now up to overContinue reading “Green Heart Runners – eight months in”
