running, reading, nonsense.
Until I played the recently released demo for Dragon Quest XI on Nintendo Switch I had never played a single entry in the famous old series. JRPG’s aren’t strictly my bag but they aren’t strictly not my bag either though. Final Fantasy VII is one of my favourite games of all time and I have… Continue reading Taking it back to the start with Dragon Quest.
I didn't intend this to be my first ever Sunday night stuff but I forgot to schedule this post which I spent last night writing and then I went to work and... Here we are. I think by posting every Thursday/Sunday I’m causing time to speed up. How can it be Sunday again? How it… Continue reading Sunday Night Stuff 25/08
There was a time not so long ago when I worked in a running shop. My main role was to perform gait analysis. I would assess runners on a treadmill, both in motion and via a video camera attached to the back of the machine in order to see if customers over-pronated or - in… Continue reading Self Support, Top-End Trainers, and a Bank Holiday Bog.
I never played the original Prey (2006) but I understand that Arkane Studios' 2017 reboot of the property retains very little from the premise of that first game, other than that you are the “prey” of the title. In this case the hunters are the Typhon, a mysterious race with the ability to hide in… Continue reading Prey
Here we are, Sunday morning. The coffee is brewed. The sun is shining. The birds are chirping. Work is awaiting. Fantastic. Really great. A Sunday however, is a Sunday, and on this seventh day I always take a look at all the new and old and new-old stuff that’s (mostly) been keeping me occupied through… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff 18/08
After a week of being injured but actually not really dealing with the fact that I was injured correctly - as in I wasn’t actually resting - I finally convinced myself to stand down for a few days. Which is theoretically unhelpful when comes to my weekly running post but in reality not running is… Continue reading Yoga, Tracking, and a Bridge Too Far.
Sods Law, or if you’re American Murphy’s Law, means if something can go wrong it will go wrong. I in Britain it also means that the “wrong” will happen at the worst possible time. So, I take a week off work, thinking about all the running I’ll be able to do and yes of course… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff 11/08
Ouch. Okay, I suppose it makes sense. I suppose really I should have seen this coming. I upped the mileage, I upped the effort, and now…I’m injured. Maybe it’s not too bad, but that’s five days without any running of significant note. About a mile into my recovery run on Monday morning after my first… Continue reading Hip Pain, a Joyride, and a Sense-Sational Run.
Buongiorno. I don’t what it is with me and the Italian language, but I’ve always wanted to learn it, and I’ve tried several times. It would be far more practical to pursue one of the languages that I began at school - French or Spanish - but I just…don’t want to. What I’m saying is… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff 04/08
End of the Streak It’s the end of the month which means that this time next week my running streak can, and probably will have already, come to an end. On paper, running every day compared to running just most days shouldn’t make too much of a difference, and physically I don’t think it has… Continue reading Finishing, Sitting, and Something Wild.
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