Making History

31 March 2012 – A once in a lifetime day – The National Lottery Olympic Park Run Last year I entered the draw for the National Lottery Olympic Park Run. They would pick 5,000 runners from all 40,000 entrants to be the first people to run in the Olympic Stadium. I won a place. I Read More …

Almost Time

Tomorrow I will join 4,999 runners in the first race to cross the finish line of the London Olympic Stadium.  I’m beyond excited. The race will be started by Princess Beatrice and joined by a host of celebrities.  Most exciting of all, we will be cheered across the line by 50 Team GB Olympic Athletes. Read More …

Does my legacy look big in this?

I can write a message on the ‘number’ on the back of my Olympic Park Run t-shirt for Saturday’s run finishing in the Olympic Stadium.  What would you say?

Olympic Park Run Pack

My race pack for the Olympic Park Run arrived today! It has a pretty decent technical t-shirt with this across the back: and this smaller logo on the front. My number…

olympic parkrun route

It’s March, and that means that it is less than a month to the Olympic Park Run.  I’ve been back out training and my injury seems to be recovering well.  I ran 8km (5miles) in the spring sunshine today in 45 minutes so my target of a sub-40 minute time for the Olympic Park Run Read More …