Disappointed to see that The Killers are going to close The Enhanced Games. Not a good look

On my Patreon book club we read Murakami's This Is What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. A little surprisingly it wasn't a hit, with most people saying it was disappointing, disjointed and with no real insights. I personally liked it, but of the 20 books we've read so far, it ranks only at 17

It was such an amazing day for a run on Dartmoor today that I just had to bring my camera. Great fun bounding around with the lads, Colum, Dan and Jeremy.

If you've got a copy of this month's Runner's World magazine (April edition), check out my story of racing the dying light (and the rising tide) ...

🤔 How about a relay run along the path highlighting the impact that climate change is having on our coastal communities… 🤔

This is a mad story ... www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

When I interviewed the founder of the Enhanced Games for the Guardian a couple of years ago, he was pretty open about the fact they'd soon be selling the drugs the athletes were taking and making a tidy profit from it. And so it goes ... gizmodo.com/peter-thiels...

This is very cool ... (now, who's going to be the first to set an FKT?) ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Action shot from my 1:23 half marathon at the weekend ...

Pinning this to my wall ...

In 2022 I got to sit down for a chat with Eliud Kipchoge, just a few weeks before he broke the marathon world record for the second time. The interview is on my podcast, but I've just shared the full, uncut video on Patreon for anyone considering signing up ... www.patreon.com/posts/podcas...

This is what ecocide looks like.

To celebrate securing an exclusive conversation on running, life and art between Harry Styles and Haruki Murakami, Runner's World magazine have resurrected an article I wrote for them in 2024 about the relationship between running and creativity www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/...

This is getting silly - another athlete plans to take the Enhanced Games money but NOT take drugs - or so he says. Are the Enhanced Games really cool with that? I can see the money is tempting for the athletes, but it doesn't seem the smartest career choice if you're not doping

It was wet and misty for our Dartmoor retreat a few weeks ago, but sometimes those are the ones that leave you feeling most energised. To see what new adventures we have coming up, and to get involved, check out thewayoftherunner.com

This old article popped up in my feed, if you're looking for something to read about simpler times ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Love this short, little film about Keely Hodgkinson's recent 800m world record ... worth the six minutes of your time www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xMD...

Melania Trump is chairing a UN Security Council meeting. I'm not joking. The US currently holds the presidency of the council and that's who Trump chose as chair.

A stroll in the park(run) open.substack.com/pub/adharana...

Pretty happy to run my fastest ever parkrun this morning, and my fastest 5K in 11 years … 17:46

This just about sums up the (ridiculous) reaction of the Tories and Reform (and the Sun, Telegraph, Mail etc) to the Green party's victory in the Gorton and Denton by election ...

As a lifelong vegetarian, this is nice to read ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

They repeatedly try to catch him out ... and repeatedly fail

Waking up to some good news for a change is a nice feeling. There is still some hope, some humanity out there …

They didn't have these "run stations" when I was last in Japan, but they sound cool, and I imagine really make exploring Tokyo on the run much more feasible ...

Dartmoor was misty and wild this weekend for our Way of the Runner retreat with Damian Hall, who joined us fresh from scrambling around the infamous Barkley Marathons course just a few days earlier - he still had Barkley mud on his shoes.

@runsingletrack.bsky.social does amazing work with their Barkley coverage from Frozen Head. Looking forward to experiencing 2026 Barkley in video form tonight! #bm100

🚨 WORLD RECORD 🚨 Less than a week after moving to third in world history in the indoor 800m, Keely Hodgkinson blasts a 1:54.88 in Liévin to break Jolanda Čeplak’s previous high-water mark. Čeplak ran the previous record on the same day Hodgkinson was born nearly 24 years ago.

Go the extra mile: how to cut costs if you’re running a marathon

Amazing effort @ultradamo.bsky.social … sounds like it was an even tougher challenge than ever this year. Which is saying something. For the 26th time in 40 years there are no finishers!

So Damian Hall is doing a retreat with me on Dartmoor starting this coming Friday. Then I see this ...

When there are limpet shells in your thatch, you know something's not quite right with the weather. Today's @theguardian.com country diary by @tomallanwriter.bsky.social considers storm damage in a beleaguered Devon village. #countrydiary #naturewriting

Love this ... Ultrarunners in secondhand trainers: the rickshaw drivers taking on the world’s toughest races www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"I’m getting used to looking out the window and seeing the glass covered in raindrops, the sky a sheet of slate grey, the trees swaying like they’re in the mosh-pit at an ACDC concert."

Amid all the craziness in the world, I went for a 14-mile run across Dartmoor with friends. The perfect antidote. Thanks, guys. p.s. We still have a couple of places on our Dartmoor retreat with Damian Hall in a couple of weeks. Come and join us. See thewayoftherunner.com for more details.

"Groups of Italians and people of other nationalities, so-called 'sniper tourists', are alleged to have participated in the massacre after paying ... to be transported to the hills surrounding Sarajevo so they could shoot at people for pleasure." Sorry, what!? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Top 8 stories on Guardian are on the Epstein files, and Trump is not mentioned on the front page once (though is in pic). This is what happens when you control which documents are disclosed and which are not.

You have to feel for Jacob Kiplimo here, he was just running as fast as he could, he couldn't help where the car was driving. (His world record has been invalidated because he was running too close to the lead car.) runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/wo...

This by Marina Hyde is exactly how I've been feeling these last few days as the British press have turned the Epstein story into a story about Peter Mandelson (letting everyone else slip away unnoticed) ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“It’s very sad because I feel like Queen grew up in America and we love it, but it’s not what it was. Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment.”

Holy shit, the men's London marathon field is absolutely stacked! These four (in the pic), plus Hagos Gebrhiwet making his debut, Olympic champ Tamirat Tola, world silver Amanal Petros, Emile Cairess ...

I'm making this free for a few days: the missing chapter from Running with the Kenyans (do please consider becoming a Patron) www.patreon.com/posts/ethiop...

This is so fucked up ... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I feel like such a cliche getting goosebumps watching @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s latest political broadcast Had forgotten not just what hope feels like, but a vision for the country that feels like it’s for the citizens of this country, not just a minority of billionaires and toxic media barons

I wish they would all just get up and leave, talking loudly as they go. He's such a buffoon

The northern lights came to Totnes last night

Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.

“I was naturally amazed by her extraordinary intelligence and thought how much we could learn from animals: patience, calmness, contentment, and gentleness.” Amen.

Before the world goes to pot, have to say I love this story about a cow. "Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist.” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

It's hard to believe this is all real sometimes ...