running, reading, nonsense.
There is something wrong with my foot, there’s not really any doubt about that. When I wake up in the morning and stumble down the steps it feels like running is the last thing that I should be doing, and even walking around is a bit of a messy, uncomfortable affair. Except, it tends to… Continue reading Just a tad of adventure.
Photo by Kumiko SHIMIZU on Unsplash Journaling my training is not just an exercise in record keeping, but in the notation of feeling, sensation, practice, so that when I come back to these posts in six months I can learn something, what worked, what didn’t. When I come back to this post what I’ll probably just think is… Continue reading Told Me So
Last week I ended my blog by saying: ‘This time next week I’m hoping to be able to come back and say that I kept my word to myself, and saved the fire for the right occasion.’ Well, that didn’t happen. As planned I went ahead and took it really, really easy on Monday, basically… Continue reading The Setback
When I discussed Born to Run last week there was no shortage of topics to talk about. There was bare foot running, mentality, diet, travel, everything and anything which you can imagine surrounding the running world because although the book was very much about one writers journey, in the grander scheme of things it was… Continue reading What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Runners Book Club)
The more I run, the more I care about running. The more I care about running, the more likely I am to read/watch/listen to other people talk about running, and having done that a lot this week one of the things I’ve picked up on is the idea of creating a training journal, not just… Continue reading Training Diary #1
Photo by Tim Tiedemann on Unsplash I'm not really a cold weather kind of guy, but there is something about a crisp but clear, ice cold blue morning in the middle of January. It's supposed to be a dreary, long month, but so far I'm actually enjoying it, thanks in no part to my continued routine of getting… Continue reading Sunday Stuff (Disappearing Earth/ Hyper Light Drifter/ Leon Bridges)
I don’t listen to a lot of audiobooks, but as I continue to step up the volume of books that I read I am finding Audible to be a useful and, more importantly, fun way to sneak an extra book into my roster. Towards the end of last year I read The Handmaids Tale this… Continue reading The Dutch House
This is a book about living hard. About trying. About how trying sometimes isn’t enough. In this his novel from 2014 author Smith Henderson pulls no punches as he paints a portrait of America as a hive of contradictions. In it he explores concepts of freedom and of anarchy and of social responsibility. It is… Continue reading Fourth of July Creek
New year. New Sunday. Same stuff. No. Wait. NOT the same stuff. Different stuff. 2020 stuff. Well, not yet. There’s still plenty of stuff that I missed from last year that I’ve still got to get through. Let’s take a look at what’s been keeping me going over the festive period. Reading... I’ve been working… Continue reading Sunday Morning Stuff (4th of July Creek/ Forza Horizon 4/ The Rise of Skywalker)
There are all manner of Best of 2019 and Best of the Decade lists to sift through to find out what has been missed, and that’s how I came to read Kevin Barry’s Night Boat to Tangier. Getting to art through the medium of someone else telling you that is Very Good creates unfairly high… Continue reading Night Boat to Tangier
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