The Liverpool players knew they had been lucky to survive the Champions League qualifier against Standard Liege last night. Once again they put me through torture in Europe!
Part of me wasn’t too bothered if we’d gone out, strangely enough. The rationale was that a) if that’s the way we’re going to play then we’re going [...]

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He’s back…hopefully for good!!!
Every day from Friday, I’ve been getting up and doing my inner quad exercises for twenty minutes. It’s actually quite painful and drags on and on, but it seems to be working.  Yesterday, I did about thirty minutes’ walking on the treadmill without much reaction, so I decided to risk a run [...]

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So the great spectacle that was the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games is over. China enthralled and delighted us during two and a half weeks of incredible action shown to billions across the world.
I have always loved the Olympics. I have vague memories of Seb Coe and Steve Ovett battling it out in 1980, but [...]

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On Thursday, I went to another sports physio recommended to me by my friend. Yet again, on the day I went, my knee decided to feel much better, but I went along expecting him to confirm the doctor’s diagnosis of an inflamed tendon.
Guess what? The doctor was wrong. This physio seemed to know exactly what [...]

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I’m going teetotal until after the marathon!!!
That’s two and a half months of no drinking. Not a drop will pass my lips until after I’ve run the 26.2 miles in November.
Farewell Foster’s. Bye bye Budweiser. Auf Wiedersehen vodka Red Bull.
So why am I doing this? Is it really going to help? Well, I think being [...]

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“Great Britain. Not really much great about it these days, is there?”
Hands up if you’ve heard a comment like that in recent times. In fact, I think it’s worse: I’d argue that there’s a lot of hatred being fired around today. Listen to radio phone-ins, flip through Internet forums, earwig lively debates and you’ll often [...]

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Let me take you through my day so far…
Alarm wakes me up at 10am. I’m tired and it’s Saturday, but I have to get up for the men’s coxless four. You’ll know from my previous post how much history I’ve seen watching this event for several Olympics, and so I really wanted us to make [...]

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I went to the doctor’s this morning after getting a surprising 9:10 appointment. He examined my knee by prodding and poking around, and after finding that I had very little pain with this, announced although I didn’t have a serious problem, I did have an inflamed tendon. Good that it’s been diagnosed, bad that I’ve [...]

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As my knee was feeling much better, I decided I’d try another run tonight. Buoyed by the arrival of my funky new knee support, I was hoping for a pain-free run on the flat, at a slow pace, in the dry.
Well, I got the flat and slow bit right! It drizzled on my way back, [...]

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It’s official: Michael Phelps is the Olympian with the most gold medals (11). Not bad by the ripe old age of 23!!
I wonder how many he can go on and get? I think he’ll get his other three later in these Games and achieve perfection here, before going on to London and beyond, picking up [...]

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