This may be a blip in the continuum, so I’m treating it very cautiously. However… Both on Monday and last night, during my first club run in about 18 months, I felt … stronger. Could my week of squats, plus a random array of other, non-scientifically generated, strength training exercises, already start to be paying… Continue reading Bouncing Back
Author: theleadlesspencil
I started blogging to practise using that writing 'muscle'. And it's made me realise that I keep banging on about the same subjects: mainly 'running', sometimes about what I'm reading, and, even more occasionally, where I'm going.
Squatting at my Dad’s
Well that was more like it. A comfortable, steady 7+ miles at the weekend and another slightly faster 4, done yesterday. My breathing seems fully back to normal, although, before yesterday’s run, I was walking around like John Wayne. Who knew that doing a few squats and lunges for the first time in an age… Continue reading Squatting at my Dad’s
100 years of my Grandma
A special thick envelope was delivered to my grandma’s house yesterday from the Queen. The special telegram, to be opened today!! Today she’ll open it and we’ll have a little Zoom celebration to mark her 100th birthday! Sita Ma has been the matriarch of our family since forever, showing us, and sometimes, even the Brahmin,… Continue reading 100 years of my Grandma
A Curve Ball in the Shape of a Cold
Sunday I was going to do a little technical post about ‘Base Training’ because I’d had several weeks of good mileage and was feeling quite strong. However, that will have to wait for another time as I’ve been feeling very sorry for myself of late. Not only had we lost the dog last week but… Continue reading A Curve Ball in the Shape of a Cold
Dog Day Afternoon
A happy dog when he's with Anne A sorry day today as Rocco, the grumpy 13 year old Pomeranian, has been sent shuffling off this mortal coil to Doggie Heaven. He’s had a great retirement with us but in the last week or so he started having seizures and when the vet’s tests came back,… Continue reading Dog Day Afternoon
Dads and Dogs
I’ve been to my dad’s a few times recently and obviously brought my running gear. And I’ve realised that I’ve already created a default route. I want to say that I’m one of those free, devil-may-care runners who, one day may go left and the next, right, and meander through new avenues and paths, always… Continue reading Dads and Dogs
The Chairman’s Challenge
I have decided that Heswall should be renamed Hes’hill’! A cake displaying the route of the Challenge How someone could devise a route so close to the base of our running club with three humungous hills, just shows that a) the terrain is somewhat slopey and b) the route-master is a devilish fiend. Roy Fisher… Continue reading The Chairman’s Challenge
Wirral Seaside 5K Run
In normal times this is a series of runs along a section of coastline of our little peninsula, happening each month from March to August. I have had a go once or twice and it is very popular. With a nominal fee, hundreds of people have pegged it from Leasowe Lighthouse to bag a personal… Continue reading Wirral Seaside 5K Run
That was the week that was
When so much writing material happens in the course of a week, a consolidation is required. A trip to the seaside on Tuesday. Tuesday It’s great to have a mate to go cycling with. Especially when you yourself are not so au fait with bicycle mechanics (I can ‘theoretically’ fix a puncture but I haven’t… Continue reading That was the week that was
The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey
The front cover of the paperback Having said I’m not into the Crime novel genre, I appear to have read two of them back to back! But you see, when the main protagonist has the surname of Mistry (as my surname is) I felt a personal obligation. As an aside, this isn’t always the case.… Continue reading The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey
