YES indeedie, two years have passed since I started writing this blog and if you’ve been reading it all this time, you probably deserve a drink! To celebrate, of course!
Without the enigmatic Bok to keep me going through the winter, my results have been down on the first year, but only a touch. In fact, I have [...]
I wish that were true, but it’s not!
A local girl friend of mine has a running machine and she has agreed to let me use it whenever I like in exchange for a small charge to cover running costs.
So since I’d not had a midweek run this week I tried it out this lunchtime.
The view [...]
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 [...]
After two hot & sticky days in London and an evening of torrential rain, I escaped out earlier into a clear, cool, sunny morning. I did my quick 5.2 mile circuit… not so quickly it turned out, as it took me 50 minutes this morning. 6.24mph.
I was aware that I was running more slowly, so [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This morning’s run was always going to be a short one.
For starters, I spent yesterday painting more of the house, managing to complete fully two-thirds of one side wall. I’ll have finished by next year at this rate. I then had to go to Kim’s rental flat to try to figure out why the cistern [...]
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 [...]
The day before we went to the Tate, Kim twisted my arm to make her some bookshelves for her study. They’re fun and functional and whilst they might not be finished as well as a shop-bought piece of furniture, they have been designed to satisfy one persons’ particular requirements. Price, say £30 (although I had [...]