By Kate Johnson

Completing a marathon has been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember, I have watched the London Marathon year after year and watched people of all ages, shapes and sizes complete the iconic course. I decided last year that 2014 would be my Marathon year and waited patiently after entering the London Marathon Ballot. After the ‘We’re sorry’ letter from London landed on the doormat I was wondering if 2014 would be my year at all.

Fast forward to May 5^th 2014. It was a cool morning, I had a decent night’s sleep and I had everything I needed all tried and tested. Running a Marathon, that’s just putting one foot in front of another for 6 hours? How hard can it be, I told myself. I had arranged to go to the course with my twitter running buddy Frank, which mean if I bottled it, I would have a really long walk home. read more

By Sam Dear

I’m not sure whether a certain Inchley brother had a hidden agenda or whether it was a new and genius coaching technique, but with most of the eight Buzzards present at the Silverstone 10k believing the start time was later than it actually was, a bit of an almighty scramble took place to get there on time for 7.30pm.

The Silverstone 10k is organised every year by Silson Joggers as the first race in the East Midlands Grand Prix series of 8 midweek races and has now been running for 31 years. The course is two laps of the old “Bridge” circuit which up until 2010 was the British Grand Prix Circuit. Now decommissioned, it’s good to hear that they will be keeping the tarmac down so this race can continue unchanged for years to come. read more

By Katie Haylock 

As the Milton Keynes Marathon runners were in their first hour Adam and I were lined up on the start line of the Thornborough 5 Mile Fun Run event, this is a yearly run which takes place in the beautiful Buckinghamshire countryside.  It was the second time I had taken part in the event and Adam’s third, the last time I had run the course was in 2008 alongside Adam, his sister and his mum.  The 5 mile fun run event commences at 11am, a respectable time for a Bank holiday Monday!  20 minutes prior to the start of this is the opportunity to take part in the 10 mile race which Adam and I would have considered, however, we are running the 10k Silverstone Grand Prix race on Wednesday and therefore wanted to save our legs for this (not sure if this is an excuse or common sense!).   read more