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’m trying to remain aloof from Daren ‘I’ve run up a 1000m mountain twice this week’ Packham’s various acerbic comments. I’m sure that some form of bovine retribution (eg. a misplaced footfall in a recently deposited cowpat) will have to be forthcoming at some point.
I think the Girl Guides (who are in Division 2 of [...]
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 [...]
Despite not having any intention of running this morning, I somehow found myself warming to the idea over my morning espresso… and was out just after seven.
It was a [I'm actually unsure of correct adjective for a change] morning, warm enough for t-shirt & shorts, windy, fresh etc. It seems to have been raining for [...]
After the heat of the last few days, it was a little cooler sitting outside this morning with my espresso and my current book, Synchronicity, The Inner Path of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski.
The lower temperature drew me to do some more fartleks and so off to the Common I trotted. It is such a lovely [...]
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 [...]
I don’t know why it should be, but whenever I think of the word fartlek I get a really clear picture of Dai Thomas first explaining it to me. Thus he was out there on the Common this morning with me, in spirit at least.
I was off to London, so I had to squeeze in [...]
After a really fun but quite intense week at work, I have pretty much collapsed this weekend. However, I was up at six this morning and sitting in a chilly tea-house by half past planning for next week. In stark contrast to last weekend, I did not want to run and this was reinforced by [...]
The morning was overcast and once again, I felt not at all like running. This is the little routine that my conscious and unconscious go through from time to time… the unconscious, like a child, testing the boundaries to see how flexible they are.
It doesn’t always go down this way, but on this occasion I [...]
As per increasingly normal, I was not particularly excited about going for a run this morning, but I duly drank my espresso black, just in case I managed to convince myself. Being warmed by the spring sunlight as I sat in the tea-house at 6.30am was a delight and my reticence started to evaporate.
Running out [...]