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With two weeks to go before my first race in over 20 years, I’ve nearly doubled my running pace and set a new 5k personal best.

Two months into running I’d covered 175 of my 500 mile target, burned over 25,000 calories, and brought my body fat down to 12%.

As Team GB won gold after gold at London 2012, I hit 125 miles of my own 500 mile running target and a personal best 5 mile time, while keeping my year without beer going.

After just 6 weeks of training for the Great South Run, I ran 10 miles in 1 hour 41 minutes, smashing my own target and setting my sights on a personal best.

My latest challenge in my year without beer: running 500 miles, starting from a standing start just a month earlier with no running experience at all.

Training for the Great South Run, I clocked nearly 40 miles in a month, signed up for a quarter marathon, and then found myself entering an off road race called The Grim.

Halfway through my year without beer, I revisited my list of 10 lagers I wouldn’t be drinking, from Amstel in the Netherlands to Kingfisher at curry nights, and what replaced them.

I went on a stag weekend without touching a drop of alcohol, including a curry, and still had a great time while waking up with a clear head.

A tribute to my Dad on what would have been his 65th birthday, remembering the man who inspired me and who I lost to cancer at 50.

Why my family introduced Meat Free Mondays, the environmental case for eating less meat, and how a plant based diet can help both us and the planet.

After Jason Vale’s Juice Academy I signed up for the Great South Run, started training despite hating running, and set out to do it fuelled only by fresh juice.

4 days at Jason Vale’s Juice Academy in Wellingborough, learning about juicing, health and addiction, and how it left me inspired enough to sign up for the Great South Run.