After a busy day on Saturday at the Indoors, I stayed over in Glasgow, as opposed to returning home to Edinburgh. The evening was very low key & a long supper took up a couple of hours, whilst spent talking to Steve Lewis & Joe Thomas after their respective pole vault & 800m...

This week there has been somewhat of a buzz in the "Pleasure Dome" (aka. Lee Valley Athletics Centre) & the place has been the busiest I have ever seen it. What's the reason for this surge in activity, you may ask & the answer is "The Fear"...or at least that's what several...

So as the sun set on 2011 & a year full of change, travels & adventure came to a tidy conclusion, so the dawn broke this morning, to welcome in 2012, a year which if anything, is likely to be one of extremes! I can't say I was thoroughly awake when I took this picture but it...

After a brief stop-off at home in Edinburgh, I arrived up in Glasgow on Friday in preparation for today's Aviva International Indoor match at Kelvin Hall. The Glasgow event is traditionally the first major date in the British indoor athletics calendar & this year saw Team GB...

Happy New Year! Once again the greeting rings true as the rabbit hops out the door & Year of the Dragon gets under way. The Dragon is the fifth & "mightiest" of the Chinese Zodiac positions & being born under the sign of the Dragon myself, it will come of no surprise to...

Back at Lee Valley, athletes are starting to return from their various warm weather training camps & there is a buzz starting to creep in as the indoor season looms. Glasgow is the first main competition on the agenda next week, with the Aviva International Series making its...

Over recent weeks & months, two topics affecting the sporting world have received increased air time as they provoke passionate discussion & debate from the players/athletes, coaches, media & fans alike. Firstly, the issue of performance-enhancing drugs. Whilst this has been...

Well, it seems that the last blog entry seemed to hit quite a chord, so thank you for all the responses & "Likes" I have received over the last couple of days - it's good to hear that a few of you were inspired to take some action after reading it! With most of the athletes...

At the beginning of last year, one of the athletes who had suffered a tibialis posterior rupture prior to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi became one of my first responsibilities as I arrived at Lee Valley. Over the course of the following four months, she worked hard followin...

As I predicted, "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall was not a book that took much of an effort to read in just a couple of days & already I am onto reading my second book of Christmas stocking origin, "Bounce" by Matthew Syed. So, what was my verdict of the national best...