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…
A major re-shuffle has taken place backstage at the ‘elite project to take the stress and strain of the current blog team, and allow Simkiss and McCarthy more time to train. Following recent journalistic success for the project – we’re delighted to welcome to the team a man who is well known by most runners…
With a lonely 14-16mi training run planned, Simkiss opted to make the journey to Daventry to complete its 10mi race at a marathon training pace of 5:37/mi (which will subsequently need to be revised following Siggers’ recent effort in Berlin). A steady start saw Simkiss settled in 2nd place leading a group, with a lone…