Just in time for VMLM 2018, comes the VMLM 2017 race report. The report would have been released sooner, were it not for the countless emails from VMLM organisers advising those unsure how to run on a sunny day, how to run on a sunny day. If only these useful info pack emails were released in…

After a long absence from the wide web of the world, and still no race report from London #VMLM2017, two McCarkissians made the journey to the infamously fast Berlin Marathon to try their luck. Ludovic Renou hoping to better his 2:30 breaking performance from 2016, and first claimer Mark Pearce who has written of his experience… Berlin…

McCarkiss HQ was overjoyed to receive word from its Northern Branch on the recent progress of Jude Peck, the club’s VMLM Club Place Ballot Winner (MCKEPVMLMCEBW for short). Jude writes… As the sole female ‘first claim’ representative of the club, and the incredibly grateful recipient of the London Marathon place, I felt it only right to…

With un-McCarkiss like levels of efficiency, and in excess of McCarkiss like levels of humour – member Mark Pearce writes of his experience in the Frankfurt Marathon at the weekend… Having run a pleasing marathon PB in perfect meteorological conditions back in April at the Zurich Marathon, my thoughts had immediately turned to an “autumn…

After what was almost certainly the most consistent Winter of training I’ve ever had… owed massively to avoiding racing XC (seriously – I don’t care what you hear anyone down at the running club say about it being good strength training – more often than not, if you want to improve your marathon running, ditch…

  Race 3 of the Tempo Events Winter Series 2015, but the first time in several years that Simkiss had made an appearance at one of the ‘near as dammit’ 10k’s in Ilmington, the road runners equivalent of fell running/XC (namely a f#cking huge climb and descent). Our athlete faired better than his own expectations…

Leeds Abbey Dash was a disaster… it really was – So pants was it in fact, that I’ve stricken it from memory. I can’t even remember what my time was; only that it was 33-‘something’, and that’s a long way short of where I was hoping and expecting to be… I needed to take a…