Doing the best that I can, at writing, running and living
In the UK, back in the halcyon days of the first lockdown, when the weather was warm and Spring was in full bloom and we were all amazed at how quiet it all felt without the cars and everybody who wasn’t harassed by having the kids at home tried a new hobby like baking or… Continue reading Technical Notes #1 – Chi Running
I know this title is an artless steal of an old song lyric but it kind of fits ish.1 I’m not sure why, but I can’t quite seem to get the words to come out for this last blog of the month. My aim was to, perhaps, write one blog each week or two but… Continue reading January February Don’t You Come Around
I wasn’t planning to write anything again until the end of the month when I will have hopefully completed my 100 miles in the month challenge. But the snow actually, finally, kind of, settling on the streets of Bebington meant that my long run hasn’t happened today and, after much vacillation and angst about letting… Continue reading 28 miles to go
My previous blog was a little side track into the real world out there where the crazy nonsense is going on. That may happen from time to time when I crane my neck from beneath my shell, peer around, and then shudder back into my cave of safety. This time I’m concentrating on the non-dramatic… Continue reading How’s that New Year Resolutions thing going?
Okay, publicly I'm very anti New Year Resolutions because of course Jan 01 is just another day. But secretly, every year I give myself a list which takes about two ponderous weeks to write before that day and about two weeks to be scrapped after it. I don't think I'm alone there. Have I attempted… Continue reading January intentions
It's not that I underestimated how hard it would be. It's that I really underestimated how hard it would be! I started off quite well and the weather turned out to be actually perfect for running; cool but not too cold and pretty much dry all the way round. Then at some point, I think it… Continue reading London Marathon – the big day …
It’s a strange thing, waiting. After spending three and a half months training and building up my strength and stamina to something a little more than I had before, this last fortnight of enjoying the sunshine and the eating and the hardly doing any running at all has felt good. Really good! But at the… Continue reading London Marathon – prelude…
Yesterday I was mostly eating tangerines and snuffling in bed. Having caught a bit of a cold at the back end of last week I decided to indulge it for just one day. That was when I was supposed to do my long run but no amount of Lemsip Max Strength could have got rid… Continue reading London Marathon Training: Week 14
Short run weekend and thank goodness as the weather was rubbish. Especially on Sunday morning. I had booked myself on to the Liverpool Half Marathon, ages ago, before I knew I’d be running London. Luckily it seemed to coincide quite well with my training in that it gave me a valid excuse to take it… Continue reading London Marathon Training: Week 12
I knew it was going to be a tough ask to try and do 20 miles again this weekend after last week’s gargantuan effort. But I had a beautiful spring day and a picturesque route on my side. Plus, the night before, my sister Hersha, had looked up the top ten foods for marathon runners… Continue reading London Marathon Training: Week 11
