by jonfielden | Oct 16, 2019 | Races
I love this race. The slight problem is that it doesn’t love me back. Pretty much the opposite in fact. I volunteered at the first Winter 100 at Bury Downs aid station on the Ridgeway (leg 4 in those days). The wind was so strong that we couldn’t put the gazebo up for...
by jonfielden | Nov 29, 2017 | Races
I’ve never sworn as much during a race as I did in this one. Not even close. I used to work in a builders’ merchants many years ago, so I can swear with the best of them. I learned from some masters of the genre. Three years working there gave me a serious...
by jonfielden | Aug 19, 2017 | Races
‘Would you like a sausage?’ asked the guy at the aid station. ‘We have cold sausages here and also hot sausages cooking. Maybe some beer, coke or apple juice? We have cheese, meat, water (still or sparkling), biscuits, lots of other things.’ He gestured at the all you...
by jonfielden | Jul 12, 2017 | Races
‘Don’t start off like a twat. Don’t start off like a twat. Don’t start off like a twat.’ I have an unfortunate history of starting off races like a twat. In various races over a variety of distances I have started off far too quickly and really suffered for it. At the...
by jonfielden | May 19, 2017 | Races
When a race starts to the Benny Hill theme tune, you know it’s going to be a long, painful day. I’d entered the Eastbourne Trackstar marathon a few months ago, on the basis that I’d run two track races before and loved them both. I figured that if I could run for 24...
by jonfielden | Sep 24, 2016 | Races
As the horn went at the end of the race, I breathed a massive sign of relief. Thank goodness that was over. I had tried it, it didn’t work out and I never had to do this ever again. My race had gone south very early in proceedings and it had been an absolute...
