Up in Cambridge, I took a Sunday morning run at an early hour, the clocks having gone forward, to Barrington hill and the cement works. Sunny and bright, hard work at times. Time: 2:01:36 Distance: 12.31 Pace: 9.53 (best 6.55) Average heart rate: 144 Nature notes: I saw a pair of hares playing in a…

I ran a new route in Cambridge today. I have often seen runners going this way, so tried it myself. It goes out over the fields between Cambridge and Grantchester, then over the M11 and out to Haslingfield. There I went up Barrington Hill, and along a footpath that skirts the quarry. It was a…

In Cambridge, and needing to do a longer run (I could have done two circuits of the TAG route but that’s dull) I ran out to Grantchester, Trumpington and on to Shelford, then across to the start of the Roman Road; then I came back via Wort’s Causeway, past Addenbrooke’s, Long Road, Trumpington Road, Trumpington…

I managed a slightly wet Boxing Day run along the Trumpington and Grantchester route Time: 41:27 Distance: 4.87 Pace: 8.31 (best 6.44) Average heart rate: 161

No watch so I can’t record a time for this, but I ran the Trumpington and Grantchester route this morning.  I think I was fairly fast. It was cold. I should have been in the Mince Pie Ten Mile, but cirucmstances dictated otherwise.

Not nearly as cold, as I thought it would be, I took myself for a TAG this morning. Time: 42:28 Distance:4.78 Pace: 8.53 (best 6.20) Average heart rate: 168

For my first post-Beachy Head run, I waited until in Cambridge and ran the Trumpington and Granchester route on a beautifully sunny early November morning. It all looked lovely as I ran past the commuters in their cars queuing their way into Cambridge on the Trumpington Road, and the boys on bicycles in the purple…

Not perhaps as long a run as I should have done at this stage, but I was fairly fast and it was a beautiful morning, if cold,. I went on a slightly elongated tag, out to the roundabout before the M11, then Granchester, Trumpington, and back into Cambridge, running past our old house in Lensfield…

It hasn’t been a very good week. I should have done a long run this morning but only had time for a short one; and being in Cambridge I took the TAG route. I ran fairly fast though. Time: 43:21 Distance: 4.92 Pace: 8.49 (best 7.24) Average heart rate: 159 Total mileage this week: 13.54…

In Cambridge, I ran out to Coton and back on the Madingley Road, Storeys Way and Castle Hill. Time: 1:18:05 Distance: 8.2 Pace: 9.31 (best 8.13) Average heart rate: 154 I felt sluggish; I don’t know whether that’s anything to do with the antihistamines I’m taking. 13 weeks to the Beachy Head marathon

A Trumpington and Granchester run on a cloudy June morning. Time: 42:49 Distance: 4.93 Pace: 8.42 (best 7.07) Average heart rate: 152

I ran today on the TAG route (qv) but with a small flourish on the second time round when I took the Barton road and came into Granchester by the road from CotonTime: 1:41:15Distance: 10.5Pace: 9.39Average heart rate: 150

A foggy and cold Easter Monday and I went to Toft and back, by way of Barton and Comberton. Time: 1:43:48 Distance: 10.56 Pace: 9.5 Average heart rate: 156

I’m in Cambridge. Having limited time, I concentrated on speed and I think did fairly well, at least it was a personal best for the route. Some explanation may help: this was a run known in our family as a Trumpington and Granchester, or TAG. It was a run done by my father (who ran…

I marked my 50th birthday today in Cambridge with an early morning run to Barton, Comberton, Toft, Hardwick and back by the Madingley Road. It was icy, but I stayed upright. Time: 2:05:42 Average heart rate: 146 Distance: probably 15 miles Total distance this week: 32.4 miles Now seven weeks to the London marathon and…

Photographs from Coe Fen, two days before my mother’s 91st birthday.