James Elson

pm: 5 miles easy. Can feel I have a shin splint in my left leg so will get a sports massage tomorrow to iron that out. Don't need THAT...

Last night I got 10 hours sleep, ate two good sized meals and did what I needed to do, rest after a long working week. This afternoon my pla...

For the first time in a long time, no single part of me legs hurts when I go up and down the stairs. It's a nice feeling not to have to ...

pm: 5 miles. Starting to get some real energy back now and my legs feel stronger. Had to suppress running longer again today. Trying to be...

pm: 5 miles. Still getting my strength back. It's hard to know what the best prep is from here on in but traditionally I've done alm...

Much more energy today, working on building that up as quickly as possible over the next week and a half. Todays major success was plotting ...

pm 3 miles. Big day.... Man I'm tired today. It was all I could do to drag myself out of bed this morning and make it once round the p...

am: 17 miles. pm: 2 miles. This morning I met Webbo down at Merstham at mile 34 on our NDW 100/ 50 route  to run the last 16 miles of the ...

5 miles easy tonight. That was it. Already from just one day off and a short run tonight, my legs felt 30% better and I had way more gas in ...

As promised to myself yesterday, no training today. It's amazing how during one day off my desire to consume fatty foods goes through th...

Simple day today. 8 miles, no significant pain but it's starting to feel like I'm just running junk miles, not really improving my f...

am: 5 miles 40 minutes. pm: 9 miles 1 hour 13 minutes. This morning felt good, this evening did not. Ran with Webbo up into and around Hyd...

11 miles today. 4 this morning, 7 this evening in just under an hour. Felt a little tight everywhere but otherwise good. I will try and shak...

Some mild pain in my knee this morning but nothing major. MASSIVE success. Nevertheless I decided to take today off completely in an attempt...

7:27 train this morning from Marylebone out to Wendover from where we would run the 45 mile Country to Capital Trail race back to Little Ven...

4 miles this morning in the altitude room, increasing tempo each km. Knee clearly still not 100% but sustainable. Spent the afternoon at the...

am: 4 miles 30 minutes, no pain. pm: 7 miles, 58 minutes, no pain. Felt good. Confidence better, stride better although I felt like I needed...

No running this morning. Depressing. Spent all day icing my leg, stretching etc it's so boring. I literally spent all day gettin psyched...

Massive set back this morning. Got up early and put my gear on. Almost immediately my knee felt tight. I got through Battersea Park ok but a...

I'm going to try something new which might be quite boring but might help me keep focused a little bit during a difficult period in my t...

Well I guess I've been pushing it harder recently with the training but just towards the end of 20 miles yesterday I could feel my left ...

Went up to the South Downs Way at 10pm tonight to get a bit of night time trail running in. I left it all day as frankly I was pretty hung o...

I have been somewhat reluctant to do a summary of the year as it just feels a bit cliche. I do however, have a pretty serious compulsive dis...

I guess over the next 8 months I'll end up writing about this particular subject over and over again. For a long time now I've consi...

Slept well last night after yesterdays little work out, got up and ran in. It was freezing this morning and I felt crappy all the way in to ...

Ran the Gatliff 50km today and had a great day out. The sun shone from 9am through to the finish just after 2pm and made the freezing condit...

Had a few good work outs already this week, I feel like slowly there is some form coming back. I have the Gatliff 50km this weekend and Luto...

After 5 weeks of intensive work on the website , Al made some of the final touches last night and we launched it today. I'm still not 10...

Lottery entry went in this morning for Western States next June. They are expecting over 2000 applicants for 300 places this year. The odds ...

Got around to booking my place at the Leadville 100 for August 2011 this morning.  Can't wait to have a go at a course I have read so m...

Well the down time has ended. I'm back in to training again now. The last few weeks have involved a few short week night runs and a long...

Its been kind of quiet for me since Caesars Camp. It was the end of my racing year to all intents and purposes and I always intended to have...

Most of the worlds hardest races have been written about at length but there are a few races at the most extreme end of the scale that haven...

From January to the first weekend of October I've trained and raced relentlessly and always planned to take a break following my schedul...

It's the morning after and I'm feeling pretty great about the race. I didn't achieve anywhere near what I'd hoped to time/ p...

Have spent the day resting in preparation for the 100 miler tomorrow and I am 100% ready to kick this off now, I think Badwater is finally o...