I’m indebted to Abigail Woods, veterinary surgeon, veterinary and medical historian and author of the excellent A Manufactured Plague: a history of foot and mouth disease in Britain, for telling me that a screenshot of the front page of this blog is used, among others, to illustrate an article in Runners World on blogs as…

I’ve come across Running Commnetary who host training diaries for two local runners Sweder and Seafront Plodder. Not quite blogs, but nearly…

I was wrong. There are any number of London marathon training blogs. My first strategy was flawed, relying on a Technorati watchlist. The watchlist strategy is: "London marathon" training OR http://www.london-marathon.co.uk/ but this found very few. I have now discovered two much more fruitful resources: The rather oddly named Running Blog Family The Runners World…