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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner: February 2015

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner. Friday, 13 February 2015. Shrubb blossoms in Chelmsford! ALF SHRUBB . . . so good they made him race against horses! GOOD to see the running scene thriving in my local city of Chelmsford these days. On Saturday mornings a remarkable 400-plus get stuck into the weekly 5k Parkrun, numbers seemingly rising on a weekly basis. Next weekend the newly-established EAN 10k race takes place, there's a new city marathon, and the cross-country and trail scene are prospering too. The an...

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner: November 2013

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner. Thursday, 28 November 2013. Ruby’s big adventure at the Chelmsford 10k. Ruby, Ruby, Rubaayyy.…. I've always liked a good coincidence. Ere’s one that amused me last week . . . . As some of you may know, on Sunday 24th November 1963 a shady character called Jack Ruby famously stepped out of a crowd and shot dead the man accused of assassinating President Kennedy. Well, EXACTLY 50 years later – almost to the hour – on Sunday 24. At first it had all been quite amusing – b...

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner: June 2014

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner. Friday, 20 June 2014. I drink, therefore I run . . . Buster Martin, the 'film star' who. Advert for running and drinking beer! AS we runners know, an interval session is a tough but beneficial form of training. Well, usually. If you thought this sort of eccentric behaviour was the preserve of only the English, think again. Your Clapped-Out Runner. Came across something equally odd in Brazil a few years ago. This was a trip when my running activities showed the Brazilian...

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner: The marathon winner nobody really cared about

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner. Thursday, 23 April 2015. The marathon winner nobody really cared about. Joe McGhee - perfect judgement. THE man who quietly taught the world exactly how to win a marathon in crippling heat has died this week aged 86. Inexperienced runners nervously preparing for Sunday’s Virgin London Marathon would be well advised to take a leaf out of the book of modest Joe McGhee, who left us this week as probably the least celebrated British gold medallist of all time. McGhee’s se...

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner: 1,000th race almost in the bag!

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner. Wednesday, 8 July 2015. 1,000th race almost in the bag! Where it all started. AND lo, the milestone looms large at the side of my well-trodden road. One thousand races! Hard to believe my very first race was almost 34 years ago. This weekend in Suffolk I’m due to hit four figures - 12,300 days and 999 races later. It all began in the summer of 1981 when Norman Harris’ articles in the Sunday Times raised the idea of a crack at that paper’s National Fun Run in Hyd...Five days...

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner: January 2015

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner. Monday, 19 January 2015. Did this sort of thing really happen in our sport? THE more you look at the picture above, the more shocking it seems. Runner No. 261, the one they are attempting to kick off the road, is K.Switzer - a bona fide member of Syracuse Harriers. She's paid her entry fee, done her training, and was quietly running the marathon like all the rest of them. So what exactly had runner K.Switzer done wrong? Well, she was a woman, that’s what! Fortunately, Switz...

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner: Runner caught red-handed!

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner. Thursday, 5 March 2015. Heard the song about the man with the 'Red Right Hand'? YOU know you’re getting old when you can’t even be trusted to go for a simple training run without falling over. When you start stubbing your toe on the relatively flat Wivenhoe Trail, where stones only protrude upwards half-an-inch or so, you know it’s time you started picking your feet up when out perambulating. The next reaction was the polar opposite of the first. Further along the slow ...

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner: Out for a run - no matter what!

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner. Thursday, 11 December 2014. Out for a run - no matter what! Ron Hill . . . 50 years of daily runs, no matter what. I remember a few years ago going out running for 50 consecutive days, an effort I was quite pleased with at the time. But next week a man with the same initials as me - although considerably more famous - is due to complete 50 YEARS of running every single day! 1964 He has run at least a mile every day since, come hell or high water. After bunion surgery in 199...

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner: January 2014

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Diary of a Clapped-Out Runner. Sunday, 12 January 2014. Over the Orwell Bridge in 1982 - and under it in 2014! 1982's Orwell Bridge half-marathon. A BRAND new 8k cross-country course was unveiled in glorious winter sunshine on Sunday in the shadow of that spectacular edifice on Ipswich’s southern outskirts, the Orwell Bridge. And as the long line of brightly-coloured runners snaked underneath Europe’s biggest stretch of pre-stressed concrete, I found myself experiencing a sudden dose of déjà vu. But all ...