26.2 miles | 4:08:19 | 36,000 runners |1 amazing day Today my legs are sore. Yesterday my body was buzzing. Throughout London, the atmosphere was like a carnival. Running through the backstreets was incredible: past the families who handed out oranges, the kids who offered sweets for the journey or held out their hands for [...]
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This year I’m overly glad to have reached the tapering stage. I’m sure I’ve not ‘peaked’ as well as in previous years, but no matter – I’ve done as much as I’m going to have chance to do, and I’m reasonably pleased given it’s been such a hectic year. Although the running’s nearly over, my [...]
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13.6 miles | 2,348 ft of ascent | 2:30 h Three pints of malty ale, and a wee dram of whiskey aren’t the perfect carb-load strategy for a cliff-top half-marathon, but it was a late-starting race (10.30 am) so it seemed like a good idea at the time. My pre-race night’s sleep was also interrupted [...]
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34 km, 3 hr 20 min This week marks the crescendo of my marathon training. Dutifully, I refrained from the pints (mostly) in the week, we went to bed nice and early on Friday, and set our alarm for 6 am on Saturday. It was pretty grey, and the sun struggled to get out of [...]
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“Organisers are excited about their new race favourite, Tom Dixon, who has taken the world of athletics by storm” “Thomas Dixon considered race favourite“ Obviously a bit of fun. But don’t forget, I’m running for a serious cause, Oxfam. Help me to help them work towards a just world without poverty by sponsoring my marathon effort. [...]
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You may wonder what Dr Beeching (the guy responsible for killing the British Railway Industry in the 1960s) has to do with trailrunning. And the answer, actually, is quite a lot. As I ran along the disused railway line in Rugby last week, I thought long and hard about what he’d done. And granted, what he did [...]
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More (real) posts to come soon. But for now, I just wanted to post to say I’ve finally got my London Marathon sponsorship page up and running. So, if you’re feeling like being generous and helping to empower some of the world’s poorest people, please visit my fundraising page: www.virginmoneygiving.com/tomdixon I’m running the marathon for Oxfam, [...]
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It’s great alliteration, but they’re also incredible trails, too. The towpaths of the Thames (London) have remained hidden from me for thirty-plus years. But now I’ve discovered them, I want to explore them all! Which is lucky, as I have the London Marathon to negotiate in a little over three months, and lots of training [...]
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It’s been a long lead-up (over a year actually, if you count the one I planned to do — but didn’t do — last year!), but it’s nearly here. We seem to have done a lot of road-running considering we’re leading into one of the most amazing trail runs in south east Queensland. But maybe [...]
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Occasionally people ask ‘why go trail running?’. Saturday’s run carried me over some of the most beautiful ground imaginable: North Stradbroke Island. From the house at Amity, a short run through the forest leads along a good trail down to the beach. Just before you get to the beach, there are several tracks that cut [...]
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A while back I’d thought we’d run at least some of Trailwalker. Now I just hope we can finish it without crawling too far. On Sunday I decided to go for ‘a little run in the park’. Brisbane Forest Park, of course. So I set out again from the Gold Creek Rd car park (Brookfield), [...]
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