running, reading, nonsense.
What do we do in Britain better than anybody else? Irony, perhaps. Pubs, almost definitely.Also, it rains a lot. And boy, we can certainly complain about that. I doubt if any country in the world can scrape as much small talk from the subject of weather as well as the Brits do. When it’s good,… Continue reading Love the Rain
Running is an unglamorous hobby. I will say that the Americans at least give it a good old go, they try to spruce it up a bit, which I suppose is fair to say: as they do with anything, and especially as they do with sport. They embrace the cinematic quality of exercise, the natural… Continue reading The Bleeding Edge
If someone could please explain to me why the hardest run that I had last week was a watch free 4-mile jog, I’m open to enlightenment. In the last couple of weeks there have been some grueling sessions: intervals, tempos, long runs, hills, and yes, they were hard, but I knew they were going to… Continue reading Running Easy is Kinda Hard
Imagine a world where you could eat and drink whatever you liked without consequence. That world will remain imaginary, sorry, but sometimes when my mileage is up a little higher (and remember high for me is not even close to being high for an elite athlete), eating and drinking can feel like I’m attempting to… Continue reading Still Running, Still Eating
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash Stay at home? Quarantine continues, running continues. Despite some threats. The British public cannot completely behave itself when the sun comes out, this is a fact. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west, and the British lose their goddam minds as soon the temperature pops above 15 degrees. So… Continue reading Keep calm and…
Photo by Jordan Ladikos on Unsplash I usually come to the page for these blogs with a concept in mind, or maybe something specific that I have learned from the week, something that has troubled me, something particular which has gone well in my progression. This week, I’ve just been running. Yes, the world has gone to hell… Continue reading Easy, Breezy
Photo by Geronimo Giqueaux on Unsplash With track training cancelled for the foreseeable future, and races off the table, now seems as good a time as ever to build a solid base of fitness, turning over some quality mileage in order to accumulate a greater aerobic capacity. Still, to do that you have to be fit, and a… Continue reading Feeling…fit?
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
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
This is a blog primarily about two things: Reading, and running. Mostly I talk about those things separately, although for me there is natural connective tissue between the two subjects. Running and reading promote the thing I crave most: focus. It is a common enough expression: To get lost in a book. You can get… Continue reading Born to Run (The Runners Book Club)
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