Tag Archives: James Adams

Bin Bags at Dawn

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Robin Harvie

Ideally, I would have commandeered my son. At just shy of two year’s old he has hit 11kg and is tall enough to sit comfortably on my shoulders. But the problem is that he wriggles so much that it’s hard enough … Continue reading →

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NOHTARAM NODNOL EHT

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Robin Harvie

The boss has gone away for Easter and the sun has turned to snow. It can mean only one thing – the final countdown to the London Marathon has begun. Last year I put word out that a few of … Continue reading →

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Come in No. 83, your time is up

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Robin Harvie

If you want to know how not to prepare for the race of your life you could do worse than read Michael Hutchinson’s delightful (and delightfully funny) book on his attempt to break the hour record on a bike. No … Continue reading →

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New Year new, er…

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Robin Harvie

First the excuses. The end of last year got swamped in a deluge of new job and striping 70 years of paint off a rather rickety bannister while trying to keep the boy at bay. Somewhere in between a few … Continue reading →

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Usain Bolt, Marcel Proust and the Race Across America

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Robin Harvie

There is more than one thing that Usain Bolt and I don’t have in common, but around about the time that he was false-starting at the World Championships on Saturday, James Adams was crossing the finish-line on Day 70 of … Continue reading →

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Meeting the Master

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Robin Harvie

Every runner’s story starts somewhere. A New Year’s Resolution. A bet taken too far, or in Dean Karnazes’s case – ‘bad tequila’. The first time I ever heard of ultra-distance running as something more than an underground cult was in … Continue reading →

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Perchance to Dream (with apologies to Jonathan Franzen)

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Robin Harvie

In my day job as a book publisher, we have been taking something of a kicking over the last few year with declining markets and the realisation that our competitors are no longer other publishers but Angry Birds and The Wire. More … Continue reading →

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