Doing Too Much/Going Too Far, Too Soon The world of running is a difficult one to compare to other sports. The vast number of people who take part in running means that many people expect to be better when they first start out. This is the first and usually the most common running mistake. Most people go too hard and too far to start with. Understanding your limits early on can massively reduce the risk of injury, meaning you’ll be able to continue your training and development in the long run. Running is a sport that needs to be taken slowly to start with. Rome wasn’t built in a day! Start s ..read more

The idea was simple, l would do a day and night marshal at the Reaper OCR race in March 2015 and use them to pay for two future Reaper Races. From the start something went very wrong with that simple plan. Three OCR marshal courses later I seemed to be fully immersed into the world of marshalling. I was one of adjudicators at the first OCRA UK Championships, one of 12 marshals picked to cover at The Unknown, 36 hours of insanity in Wales, head marshal for Warrior Run in Brighton, area supervisor for Frostbite and Gelt Gladiator and even heading to the European Championships in the Netherl ..read more