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 [...]
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 [...]
Managed to get back in the pool on Thursday night for 45 minutes and found that it’s easier to count in sets of four than singly. Three breast-stroked and a length crawled. At the end of the session I did an extra crawl, so out of 56 lengths I managed 15 crawlies. Still pretty knacked [...]
I should mention that last night he recounted a tale of being flung, wearing only shorts, into a large nettle patch when he was young… ugh!
I can tell you first hand that the streets of Kensington & Chelsea are cared for in a way that puts other councils to shame, with perfectly paved, level sidewalks, motorway standard tarmacking and regularly cleaned gutters. Outside of the garden squares and patio pots, mud does not feature widely.
I only discovered the main bridle-path down the Beacon last year and it’s still a thrill to run down, although today it was slippery enough for me to recall passages from Richard Askwith’s earlier book, Feet in the Clouds about the completely balmy sport of fell running.
Are you crazy?
I was contentedly supping on my quad-spresso this morning, tucked up in my reading chair with a truly excellent book, The Lost Village, by Richard Askwith.
I was helping lay the concrete base for a barn this morning so I didn’t go running, but I thought you might like to get a sense of what it’s like to be in my shoes from the following short video, taken on Monday. And for all of you that have been putting off going [...]