running, reading, nonsense.
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
Photo by Illiya Vjestica on Unsplash In running you get out what you put in. If I decide that I want to run a half marathon in under 80 minutes the amount of work that I have to put in is not exactly objective as there is no barrier through which I can pass which will guarantee me… Continue reading The Longest Week, so far.
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
A while back I wrote about how I was going to be taking part in findarace.com's Plan B initiative, a series of virtual races and distance goals to keep runners motivated during the lockdown. I chose the 200km total, and to make things a bit tougher for myself, because I was used to doing relatively… Continue reading Plan B, complete.
It’s been a bit of a struggle to find the time and energy to update this blog as much as I would like. I have been reading, and I have been running, it's just that I’ve been fighting a losing battle against actually writing about those things. I have been eating a lot though, and… Continue reading Eating to a PB
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?
Weird times. Is it as bad as it seems? Or is it worse? I don’t know, and chances are neither do you, and neither does the bloke in the bar proclaiming the coronavirus to, actually, be a global conspiracy to install a regime of martial law around the world. Insert eye roll. Anyway. Spend less… Continue reading Plan B, C, D…
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