I'm Darren, I have been running since the age of 11 yrs old, I live in Luton, I run for Bedford & County AC ,South of England and i am a England International. I specialise in long distance and cross country, the hillier the course the better! I train seven days a week - on average twice a day and add some circuit training in to the mix for good measure.
D.O.B - 07/05/78
* 3 KM track 8.31
* 5 KM road 14.17
* 5 miles road 24.10
* 10 KM road 29.48
* 10 miles road 49.30
* half KM road 65.42
* 2 times England International Cross country
* Winner of the International Half marathon in Bamberg, Germany 2009 beating the course record by 3mins
* Winner of the International 11k road race in Germany. Beating the course record by 4 mins
* Winner of the Mansfield Team National Cross Country relay record 3 times
* Running sub 30mins in four 10k races
* King of the Hill front cover article of the Athletics Weekly
* Winner of the London Cross County Champs
* Finished top 12 in the Inter Counties Cross Country for the last 4 years
* Cross Country Team Gold in the Aviva Home Counties International
* Represented South of England numerous times on the road
* National 6 stage winner
* National x/c finshed top 12 for last 5 yrs
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Chiltern League X/C Luton I don’t do as many of the Chiltern leagues these days as I always go for the bigger races as I need to be racing against me rivals , but don’t get me wrong these races can bring you on and give you confidence and you always get some decent runners .. Read More
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Race Report National x/c relays report If you would have said to me that we would have won this race again I would have bitten you’re hand off the reason why is because this has to be the hardest of the relay’s to win because most of the top teams have four very strong .. Read More
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Race report Great south run Decided to go down on the day as it was a later start and my best mate Spencer said he would drive which helped a lot, we left at 6.45 am which wasn’t too bad as I got an extra hour in bed thanks to the clocks going back. We had a good jou .. Read More
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Race Report Well were do I start, 4th place is never the best place to finish but overall I think we done a good job. We had a few set backs which couldn’t be helped for example Dan Dalmedo still coming back from injury, Matt Janes did a Marathon last week, and myself who was not well .. Read More
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Blisworth 5 mile road race report Hi guys/ girls I was I bit worried about the race during the day because I hadn’t raced since the Norwich 5k which was about a month ago, I hate leaving races that long but that’s how it has panned out, plus the weather during the day wa .. Read More
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Race Report 5k British league Not much of a race report I am afraid Went out for my normal pre race 30min easy to wake the legs up for the race ahead, normal route over parkland, within 15 min I had a new pet attached to my arm I think name is Mr Rotviler I didn’t get time to get his name, b .. Read More
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My last race was the Norwich 5k on the 11th July which is a road race up and around the lanes and streets in the city centre. I enjoy doing this race even though this is too short for me, but the course makes up for the lack of distance. Under starters orders and Moumin Geele was in the lead positio .. Read More
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Update First things first Happy New Year to all you Runnerslife readers hope you all had a great Xmas and a very drunken new year. First things first sorry for not blogging as often as I did towards the end of last year had some bad Family news that knocked me back and meant time wa .. Read More
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Hi all, First of all sorry for not Blogging for a while just had lots going on with house renovations, being ill, and little man being ill as well ,and my computer breaking. Now that the dark mornings and dark nights have arrived it feels like the official start of the winter s .. Read More
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Hi all, Hope you are all enjoying the World Athletics champs, even with them being on channel 4 just doesn’t seem right and feels like they have plucked random presenters out of no were with no or little knowledge of the events, but anyway I just turn the sound of and don’t have to l .. Read More
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Update Hi there everyone hope all is good and training and racing is going well and you are enjoying some of the sunshine we have been getting recently if you have been one of the lucky ones. It has been a busy couple of weeks of training work and the family as usual, well Owain has le .. Read More
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Update Hi all hope all is going well with training and racing plans and that you are reaching the goals that you have set for the season.All is good at the moment training going along nicely and racing going well got a few more races lined up in July and August which will keep me busy and running s .. Read More
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Update Hi all, It's been a crazy couple of weeks in the world of mine with work, training, racing, Fatherhood and getting chased by 2500 women all for a good cause come to that a bit later in the blog. First things first training has been solid, had some good key sessions that tell me that I am n .. Read More
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Update Hi allHope all is going well and the hard work you are putting in is being reward with good performances.We'll all is back to normal now Holiday/Training seems a distant memory, and back to the reality of the work etc had a really good time spending time with the family having some nice meal .. Read More
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Hi all, It's been a good couple of weeks training and the normal rushing around of juggling running Work and Family life nothing new there then, but that's life just got to get on with it even when you are feeling knacked and tied things have got to be done, I don't know what I did with my time aft .. Read More
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Update/Race report Hi all hope all is going well in training and racing.It's been a few weeks since I blogged and a lot has been going on with life in general. Training has been going really well and in some good shape for the summer may even throw in the odd track race but the main event will be t .. Read More
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Update Hi all and firstly Happy Easter hope you haven’t eating too much chocolate if so just do a bit more of a longer run tomorrow . Well I absolutely love this glorious weather that we are having and also loving the Bank hols as well what a great combo it makes life so much more en .. Read More