running, reading, nonsense.
Photo by Inge Maria on Unsplash I wouldn’t say that I’m a fair-weather runner, but with a treadmill easily accessible to me I do, fairly frequently, ditch my road runs for treadmill sessions when the weather is grim. Recently the weather has indeed been particularly grim, and although I still believe there are benefits to running on the… Continue reading Running Wet, Running Hungry, and Running for Soup.
Today has the potential to be the perfect Sunday. No work. A long run. Several cups of tea, some reading, perhaps (read: definitely) a little Dragon Quest XI. OH! And how could I forget... Sunday Morning Stuff. Let's get into it. Reading... With Halloween out of the way and my classical gauntlet of picks in… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff 03/11
There was a time not so long ago when the world was infected with zombie madness. I’m thinking between the mid-noughties to the early tens, starting roughly with Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake and Shaun of the Dead in 2004 all the way to World War Z in 2013 (which also saw the… Continue reading Night of the Living Dead
Classically Lacking is a series of reviews where I tackle some so-called-classics which have passed me by and make an argument either for or against going back and taking them on if you've missed them too, because who has time these days? You know how many shows Netflix has? And I don't mean Friends I… Continue reading Suspiria (1977)
The end of October looms large, November in-waiting like a grim vanguard of the Christmas season, here all too soon...but there is nothing to be done. Nothing. Halloween hardly stems the tide of Xmas nonsense but once it is gone nothing stands in the way of St Nicholas. BUT October and November are often good… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff 27/10
Photo by Will Fuller on Unsplash When I went out on Wednesday morning for an 8-mile run I thought that winter had well and truly arrived. Yet, October isn’t quite over and done with yet though, and if I'm being brutally honest with my cowardly self, it wasn't even that cold. If I can’t stomach that level of… Continue reading Running Cold, Chicago Inspired, and a Grand Prix.
It’s Sunday Morning and we’re doing it live! No work today so I can actually be here on a Sunday Morning and put down my thoughts on all of this stuff that I’ve seen and read and heard and played this week. Let’s not waste time, let’s take a look at what I have been…… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff 20/10
Photo by Vek Labs on Unsplash As I have already described in my race report, the Great Eastern Run didn’t exactly go to plan. It didn’t really go at all, actually, as it was cancelled last minute. Rather than spend any more time marinating in that disappointment, it is time for me to move on and plan what… Continue reading Going Longer, The Impossible, and Embracing the Dark.
This was to be my first half marathon, and for that reason alone I thought it would be impossible to be disappointed as long as I got to the end and crossed that finish line, but it wasn’t to be. I never started. In fact, no one did. For reasons beyond the control of the… Continue reading Race Report: The Great Eastern Run
Chances are if you’re reading this I’m running the Great Eastern Run, so you best be giving me your best wishes or else there’ll be trouble. Whilst I’m out dying, how about you take a look at all the stuff that’s been keeping my sanity in check this week, or should I say the last… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff 13/10
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