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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kim decided to go swimming, thereby getting only slightly wetter than I did running.
It had been overcast & slightly blowy when I go up and I sat in the tea house, reading and supping a huge espresso from my oldest Kri-Kri cup. in short, a lovely morning. I walked back to the house, started to [...]
After laying a good friend to rest yesterday, it was lovely to run out this morning into a flat, calm, drizzly day. The last couple of days have been very windy so the wetted ground was covered in a thin mat of green leaves and sticks, the remnants of nature’s spring-clean.
I did my quick loop [...]
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As family and friends, colleagues and clients, I suspect that we have each seen different sides of him, and each carry a different version of this remarkable man around with us. I sincerely hope that, if you knew him, you might feel inclined to compare and contrast [...]
It’s always difficult writing after the event, but after a break of about ten days, I did actually get out for a run last Sunday. I couldn’t let the guys that ran the Prague marathon feel I wasn’t there, at least in spirit!
In short, I ran to the top of the Downs above Westmeston from [...]