I’m quite often not in the mood to run on an early mid-week morning, but usually the feeling goes within the first mile or so. Not this morning. I forced myself to run and had to cajole myself to keep going virtually every step of the way.
Part of this was that it was foggy and [...]
What do you say to the friends & family, the spouse, children, parents or siblings, of a close friend who has died in tragic circumstances? Especially when you have your own personal thoughts, emotions, memories.
This is a question that has been omnipresent over the last few days and it continued to mull around in my [...]
I fell asleep on the sofa last night around 8.45pm as if I’d been drugged, ignoring peppermint tea and chocolate muffins on the coffee table and only being roused to go to bed after eleven. I was quite surprised then that I awoke at 6.10am this morning, ten minutes after my alarm didn’t go off.
It [...]
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I bought my first house in 1990 from Phil and his wife Pam and they have been firm friends ever [...]
This morning I took Avishai, our weekend house guest up to Jack & Jill to see the view from the top of the Downs. Alas, what I had hoped would be a beautiful, warm run was anything but. First, the wind was sharp and cold (added to which we were both wearing shorts) and second, [...]
I ran my current default circuit of 5.2 miles in 42 or 43 minutes today and whilst I wasn’t that impressed with the two or three minutes less that I took compared to last time I ran it, it did increase the speed to 7.3mph or thereabouts.
I spent the run thinking about how we run [...]
I took a bottle of water with me yesterday, despite the fact that I suspected I might have a short run. This was less to do with not feeling like running, as I felt fine, but more to do with not feeling particularly inspired by any of my normal routes.
After a relatively dry period, it [...]
I’ve been noticing that its harder work to run these days and having discounted thicker air, increased gravity and the earth tilting against me, I’ve decided it’s probably just because I need to run more.
As I fell out of bed this morning, there was an extended howl of wind from outside which was accompanied by [...]
After working hard in the garden yesterday, I would not have been surprised if the last thing I relished was a run today. However, yesterday’s hard work was a visual triumph, especially on such a bright spring morning and as I sat in the tea house circa 9am, I had the urge to run rather [...]