Actually, maybe this should be called a post-piste run, in view of the fact that we enjoyed several bottles of wine with our friends Phil & Pam last night… which is several more than we normally imbibe!
Fortunately I awoke with no serious side-effects and Phil & I were out of the house, running down the [...]
I pulled up at Falmer pond behind a guy limbering up to go running and asked him if he was running with Andy? ’Yes’, came the reply, ‘but how did you know to come here?’ It turned out that he had only just changed the meeting point and was waiting for a different Andy to me!
Cliff, Lydia, Andy [...]
The forecasters’ prediction for today was very wet, but as it turned out it was instead very warm. I found this out as I ran down the road carrying both my Gore jacket and beanie hat as insurance against being caught out in the rain.
I had decided against driving to the Downs as there was [...]
I was lax again this week and didn’t manage to get a mid-week run in. This despite Cliff asking me if I wanted to join him & Andy P in a run around water-world, aka the Downs on a super-wet Friday evening! Unlike last week when I couldn’t walk, let alone run, this week’s excuse [...]
After the exertions of last weekend, I spent a couple of days descending stairs sideways, one at a time and generally walking around like a 90-year old. I’d been looking forward to getting out running again today, but I guessed that, with a day of heavy drizzle yesterday and a night of torrential rain, all [...]
Inspired by Daren’s recent ascent of the Grouse Grind in Vancouver, which rises 933m in a distance of 2.9km, I [stupidly] decided to replicate his feat right here in Blighty.
I scoured the map for likely candidates and the only hill that I could find with that gradient was Wolstonbury, which I stormed back in April [...]
No, don’t be silly, although I did complete it once in 1990, the year that I bought my first house. Maybe next year?
I’ve felt a general malaise over the last couple of weeks and I would have AGAIN happily not run… but for two things. One, the need to write and two, the fact that [...]
Apologies for the sporadic nature of the last few posts, to do both with missed runs and missed posts. Although I didn’t run midweek (yet again!), last Sunday fell into the latter category, primarily because we rushed straight out to meet our friends Patrick & Sarah at the Tate Modern for lunch… and I’ve then had a manic [...]
I’ve recently been sitting out most mornings in the tea-house enjoying the early morning sun. This week the weather warmed a little and one morning I was sitting in shorts & t-shirt by 7am. Yesterday however, I walked straight out in my running kit at 6.30am and it was already gloriously warm!
Learning from last week how [...]
I stayed up way late watching a movie last night which meant that it was 8am before I dragged myself out of bed and 9.30am before I got out to run. By which time it was already quite hot & muggy. There are mornings when I run off down the road and instantly feel at [...]