| |
 |
The Blackford Index
By Runner's World on 27/10/2003 16:36:57
You'll laugh till you cry, or you just won't get it... it's the Runner's World Finishline archive - updated weekly
Blackford on...The New York City Marathon... "Given that I dislike New York and loathe marathons, I enjoyed the New York City Marathon immensely. It started well – I managed to avoid getting peed on from the upper deck of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge...."Healthy living... "Four ...
|
|
 |
Resurrection Of The Sole
By John Bingham on 27/11/2003 15:00:44
For those old pairs of running shoes, there is no finishline
I’ve admitted this before in my column. But I suppose if confession is good for the soul, repeating the confession can’t hurt. So here goes: I’m crazy about running shoes. No I really am and I’m not joking.I like to look at them, read about them, try them on, and buy them. And I’...
|
|
 |
My VLM 2010: John Whitehead (4:23)
By John Whitehead 4 on 26/04/2010 22:02:12
The knee injury I sustained pre-Christmas made an unwelcome return at the most inconvenient time but that didn't stop me from reaching the finishline
After a few years of running 10Ks and half-marathons, the next challenge was the big one: a marathon. Six months ago (when I first received confirmation I had a ballot place) I was made up and devised my training programme carefully. I felt like nothing could stop me.That was unt...
|
|
|
|
A Bi-Psyche Made For Two
By Andy Blackford on 04/09/2003 17:20:05
Your Official Me Observer can provide you with a whole new angle on doing splits
Im injured. I never get injured, but here I am, injured. Whats worse, I suspect that I got injured by congratulating myself on how I never get injured. Im plagued by this sort of thing. For instance, I used to lay awake at night, worrying in case I had hypochondria. I get it...
|
|
 |
Painfulness Is Just An Ilusion
By Andy Blackford on 04/09/2003 17:28:56
Vanquishing pain by using only the power of your mind can be the real pain
Life is pain.Life is illusion.Therefore, pain is illusion.Its simply one of the more irritating consequences of Samsara the imaginary world in which were all condemned to stagger about blindfolded, bumping into imaginary objects, physical and mental, thereby sustaining a ho...
|
|
|
|
Taxing Relief
By Andy Blackford on 05/09/2003 10:40:13
Losing money to the taxman can be painful, but the alternatives can be downright agony
It was my accountant’s fault. “You have far too much money,” he said. “You need to get rid of it. For tax purposes.”“How?” said I.“Well, accountancy fees are tax-deductible. I’d be doing you a favour by doubling them.”“Thanks,” I replied, warmly.“But I’m afraid that’s only the s...
|
|
 |
Paradise Lost
By Andy Blackford on 05/09/2003 11:10:41
It's expected that most honeymooners will get into a few strange positions, but being bent backwards over a rubber ball takes the tradition to a whole new level
‘Ah! Miss-ah Blackfor! Tha’s perfec! Now, put your light foo behine your head an’ SLETCH! Thassit! SLETCH! Perfec!’Amnuoy is a sunny, smiling sadist. Like many Thai people, there’s something engagingly childlike about him. But even the sweetest children like pulling the legs of...
|
|
 |
The Loneliness Of The Long-Suffering Runner
By Andy Blackford on 05/09/2003 11:16:48
Sometimes life can seem like one big Marathon des Sables
“I can’t imagine why they’ve allowed six days for 105 miles,” read Seaton’s e-mail. “It’s non-stop after all.”If this was supposed to reassure me, it didn’t. I had to remind myself that my editor’s idea of a gentle warm-up for the Trans-Siberian Bare-Foot 500 was a weekend o...
|
|
 |
Missing In Action
By Andy Blackford on 05/09/2003 11:22:02
Map reading may not be an instinctive skill, but you'd have to practise at being this bad at it
If the ‘World’s Toughest Foot Race’ was merely a race to develop the world’s toughest foot, I’d be laughing. I’d spend a couple of weeks firewalking in Haiti, soak the old plates of meat in permanganate, and bingo! – I’d be quaffing my Special Brew from the Jordan Desert Cup by C...
|
|
 |
Way-Laid
By Andy Blackford on 05/09/2003 11:30:24
Is there any better preparation for the sand dunes of Jordan than a summer jaunt along the Cleveland Way?
Why I should have imagined that a 14-mile run along the Cleveland Way in August might be good training for the 105-mile Jordan Desert Cup, remains a mystery. Perhaps I reasoned, not unreasonably, that August = Summer = Heat, and that the combination of sweltering temperatures an...
|
|
