Running Blog and Fitness Blog by Neil Lock

2011 Great South Run

This race was one of those I signed up for months and months ago. I’m not really sure why, it just seemed a good excuse to visit Portsmouth again and also re-run one of my first ever races. Following Berlin I somewhat pushed it to the back of my mind, my running has been sparse [...]

History Stands

A few weeks ago I had the fortune to find out about a special evening organised by Niketown Stratford to celebrate its opening and launch of its weekly run. A small group of us had the privilege of a Q&A session with world record holder Paula Radcliffe. I found out about the event whilst at [...]

Cross Country Running

Last year I told myself that I would at least try one of the XC races offered through the Serps and with one being organised relatively locally at Cheshunt I gave it a go. As with most of my running if you were to roll back 10 years and ask me to do a XC [...]

2011 Royal Parks Half Marathon

In May I was invited to do the Royal Parks Half Marathon and I took up the offer. However, until about a month ago in my head I had it down as one week after Berlin, fortunately it was two! I obviously had the distance (or double it) in my legs so wasnt overly concerned [...]

Berlin, Marathon start #5…‏

Months and months (before running the London Marathon) ago I entered myself into the Berlin Marathon. It was on the back of a successful Dublin Marathon and I thought what could go wrong… Then London happened, confidence waivered, I spent the next few months training and most importantly praying for a dreary autumnal /early winter [...]

Here we go again…

Yes, that’s right I have looked at the schedule and next week has the words REST scribbled right across it. This can mean only one thing Sunday is the big day. Shed loads of training, loads of long runs later and I’m finally in the taper stage for Berlin. I don’t really know how I [...]

Maidenhead Half and a Royal Parks Training Day

This weekend was a busy one in terms of running. On Saturday I headed along to a workshop organised by the Royal Parks, a morning session held at one of Matt Roberts gyms in London. Having been to a couple of full marathon days I was familiar with a large percentage of information provided however [...]

Running in the Lake District

Quite often I hear this line, or something very similar, from friends ‘you are insane’. This almost always refers to my running habits; doing stupidly long runs, running on holidays and running occupying a huge period of my life. Well this weekend whilst in the Lakes with Justin, Ash and Laura I found myself saying [...]

A running engagement in the USA

As I sit on a tube looking at the glum faces around me all heading for work I only have to shut my eyes and I’m back running in America…This is quite a long post and unfortunately I suspect the bit most of you have come for is nearer the bottom, sorry! Las Vegas Two [...]

Running but not blogging, poor form

So this period of time with no blogs doesn’t correspond to a lack of training just a period of laziness with posting! Since I last updated I have done a number of long runs all off which technically warranted some individual recognition but alas they will all be lumped into one long post. Three weeks [...]