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Late summer last year and RunUltra editor Alice Morrison sends a distress flare to Andy: She has three months to get ready for a six day stage race taking place…

At the end of last year the MoJ ordered a review into the role of sport in rehabilitation and resettlement. The review is led by Professor Rosie Meeks and is…

So you think it’s hard breaking out of prison? You want to try breaking in.  This is what it takes for a new social enterprise with One Big Idea to…

Alice Morrison likes an adventure. She likes ‘em so much that she moved out to Morocco to live (and be editor of www.runultra.co.uk ) in a tiny village high up in the Atlas…

There’s’ an inflatable sofa in the corner and I can’t take my eyes off it.  There are even cushions and a blanket for chrissake.  I’m at the ten miles to go…

BANG! Something hard and unyielding punches me in the forehead. I hear my neck crack as I go down like a sack of spuds to lie blinking uncomprehendingly at the…

July 27th will see the 11th start of the Lakeland 100 and ten years on from toeing the line on that very first edition, yours truly will be back and ready to…

The weather’s back. After weeks of unseasonally warm almost wall-to-wall sunshine the wet and windy stuff is back with a vengeance. I have 33miles and 10,000’ of Lakeland mountains to…

This one was first written early 2017 in which I attempt to put my spin on one of the central dilemmas of successful rehabilitation. The Trouble With Transition In 2016…

Andy’s latest piece for Run Ultra on how to get your running ‘Just Right’

I’ve spent much of the last two years trying to figure the right combination to the door of the Justice sector so that I can get the damn thing open…

‘Bloody hell, it’s turning purple!’ Now I know what some of you are thinking – and this is not that kind of blog. It’s this: I’m back in the treatment…