From the desk of Coach James

Self help books have said it before: What you tell yourself is what you become. Yet we don’t believe it, or take those words of advice on...

Time goes by so fast, we don’t appreciate how quickly our lives are ticking by – scary thought. I don’t quite know how to begin this...

My blog posts have become a bit hit-and-miss of late. Partly due to the fact that other things are getting higher priority, and also my...

Most people seem to get by okay, and it’s alright by them to settle for a mediocre existence, and that’s fine, if that’s what they want....

Do you ever set out to do something, and no matter how hard you try, the thing you are trying to do doesn’t go to plan? When this type of...

I find myself, again, somewhat lost for drive and momentum – I am out from injury. Where did February go? I just noticed that my last...

It was the South West Athletics Academy open day, I was not sure what to expect. My main intent on attending was to try running on the...

I was starting to get anxious preparing for the London Marathon, was it enough to just go to the gym and run on the machine in a safe...

It seemed like a great idea at the time, but on Friday I got a call from CRunCH, the clearing organisation who deal with charity entries...

As I stood impatiently in line with other choleric passengers waiting to board a delayed flight from Miami to London, I stood in awe of...