Race Report: Bristol Half Marathon 2014

Checking into the ‘Elite Hotel’ the day before the race, McCarthy had never felt like such a fraud. The pre race meal in the hotel restrurant was at 7pm but ‘the McCarthy’s’ decided to avoid it and headed out to meet up with some friends that live in Bristol for a few beers and some…

Feature: What Northern people are bothered about

The McCarkiss Elite Project are proud to launch their new ‘regular’ feature entitled, ‘What Northern people are bothered about’. This randomly published feature will give an insight to Northern life for our predominantly Southern softy readership and hopefully give more of an understanding as to why Nothern people make ‘raight good runners’. ‘What Northern people…

Exclusive: Kenilworth Runners Logo Design Leak

Your favourite source for running related guff has got its hands on yet another exclusive from the local running scene. Ivor Smallcock, the very same reporter that brought you other famous Kenilworth Runners’ exclusives such as “Phil Gould : my post op hell”, the earth shattering interview entitled, “I may be ‘Broadbent’ but I’m slender…

Race Report: Southam Triathlon 2014

As McCarthy celebrated ‘the race of his life’ and narrowly avoided being last across the line in the BMC 10,000 B Race – Simkiss was busy not preparing for the Southam Triathlon. Devoted MCKEP fans will remember Simkiss taking part in this event for the first time last year, and perhaps more likely upon reading…

Race Report: BMC 10K

With a lack of consistent training and no idea of what was going to happen, McCarthy took his place on the start line of the BMC 10k, ranked as one of the shittest runners in the field. A 5x1k session on the Wednesday at the track had given him the confidence he could run a…

Race Preview: BMC 10,000

With less than 24 hours to go until the BMC  10,000, (brought to you live and exclusive by www.vincosport.com) we look at what chance McCarthy has of pulling off a monumentous victory in the B Race. Not a hope in hell. Running through the field of household names (in the world of average running) such…