otrops: jeff van campen’s personal blog

This post is quite possibly overkill, since pretty much everyone who reads this blog will have read my multiple tweets on this subject.
I ran my second 10k race today in Bushy Park.
I ran my previous (and first) 10k in 1:00:10. When I started training for this run at the beginning of the year, I was [...]

As you’ll probably know from last post, I ran in the Baxter’s River Ness 10k over the weekend. I managed to finish it in just over an hour (01:00:10, to be exact).
Before I talk about the race, I’d like to go on about the Highlands for a bit. This was my first time there. [...]

Today, Joanne and I ran the Tree-Athlon, a 5k in Battersea Park.
My goal for the run was to run in in 30 minutes. I came in at 30:01, but giving all the faffing about at the starting line — it was at least 30 seconds before there was room enough to run — I’m [...]

Joanne and I are going to be running again in the Trees for Cities Tree-Althlon.
You may remember that we did it last year and actually managed to finish, despite the fact that neither of us had ever run before.
We’re going to do it again. We’re going to run to raise money to support Trees [...]

Today I went for a run on Clapham Common. I ran on the Common last weekend, but I hadn’t run outside since I sprained my ankle. I have been spending a fair bit of time on the treadmill at the gym, though, and I’ve been using the heart rate monitor David gave me [...]