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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
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Horse Sense
By Andy Blackford on 04/09/2003 16:39:13
Ever wanted to try horse racing - well now's your chance. But the horse always wins
the first race in 1979.Horses, having twice as many legs as people, invariably win despite compulsory vet inspections. This is just as well for sponsors William Hill, because theyre offering £20,000 to any runner who beats the horses to the finish line
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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
in case I had hypochondria. I get it when Im meditating, too. Im supposed to count out 10 breaths while concentrating wholly on my breathing. If my mind strays to anything else Ducati motorcycles, the size of mangoes, the Shania Twain video then I
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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
this week I decided to secure a bit of moral support: I called up my old Marathon de Sade crew and tried talking them into joining me on the Jordan caper. Eadie, a veteran of the Himalayan 100, was cheerfully apologetic. “Sorry, sport, I’m doing a 200-miler
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Charity Fatigue Syndrome
By Andy Blackford on 09/09/2003 10:30:17
Charity may start in the home, but these days it always seems to end up at a race of some sort
In the last 20 years, running has become inextricably entangled with fund-raising.Correct me if I’m wrong, but until the first London Marathon we ran only for ourselves. When we turned up in the rain to plod round the Cabbage Patch 10, the last
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Deus Ex Maniac
By Andy Blackford on 09/09/2003 10:38:36
Undergoing a Trans-formation can be a painful process
it will never catch, I am reduced to the ruin who scratches out these sorry lines for you tonight.Was it only 20 years ago that, fresh of face and fleet of foot, I carved out my daily mile around the South Circular, from Clapham Common to Streatham Hill? Behold
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Excuses, Excuses
By Andy Blackford on 09/09/2003 11:49:06
Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction - but mostly it's the other way around
wont as cant. Back in the 1950s, my mother caused a scandal when she ran away with a sausage salesman from Penge. They met at a ballroom dancing class and rumbad round the world for a year before settling in Mauritania. By this time, she
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Beach Queens Of LA
By Andy Blackford on 10/08/2004 12:43:50
When the sun comes up on Santa Monica Boulevard... the population of California goes running
“This is WKLA, comin’ to you from the heart of downtown Santa Monica. It’s another beautiful morning here by the ocean – and this is Steely Dan.” I turned up the radio and wound down the windows of the absurd, grey 1965 Oldsmobile as it wallowed
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Thinking Outside The Box
By Andy Blackford on 08/09/2004 12:48:54
I've found that when it comes to running, less is definitely more
– the Marathon des Sables. (Incidentally, given the recent events in Casablanca, will it ever be run again?)Anyway, I couldn’t train. To put one foot in front of the other was to experience the martyrdom of St Sebastian while having one’s lungs scraped out with a
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