Weekend of awesome
Done so many wonderful things this weekend with wonderful people at the 10th annual coast party Damian hosts. A few brief highlights (in no particular order): Spent time talking, singing, dancing and...
View ArticleNew running blog
Sorry for the dearth of posts. I’ve slightly exhausted the ‘new soup’ supply, and have been busy with a combination of personal projects and work. One of the personal projects, my running/fitness...
View ArticleWelcome, The Long Slow Run readers
…both of you. For the best part of a year, I’ve run a second blog, the Long Slow Run – initially in collaboration with a colleague, then solo, charting my newfound passion for running – which I took up...
View ArticleMy first running club experience
So last night I ran with the Chineham Park Running Club and had my first ever experience of club running. Today, everything hurts. Not knowing how much you’ve got coming makes it hard to pace yourself...
View ArticleBeat the Banana 2011
I can’t do BTB this year – otherwise engaged at work. But people who like running and hate cancer should consider supporting WCRF’s efforts to promote awareness of healthy eating and lifestyle as key...
View ArticleRunning update
I resolved, at the start of this year, to manage the relatively modest target of 10k per week run – a minimum of two 3 mile runs or so a weekend. Before the sabbatical, I was struggling a bit with...
View Article10k time – improvements in a week
OK, so instead of running my third 10k of the week yesterday I assembled my study from Ikea flatpack crates and went to the playground with my wife and daughter, but still… it was a good week for...
View ArticleDiet disaster, running hiatus
If I’m honest, the last six months haven’t seen the healthiest eating on my part and I’ve gained some weight – which has made the running much harder. I need to get back into the rhythm of things and...
View ArticleFirst run in a while – aka the anti-Juneathon
I finally made it back out last week, after slightly more than a month spent avoiding running at all due to a combination of laziness, lack of motivation and busy-ness. Last year I ran practically...
View ArticleIllness and fitness
In the year before Emily was born, I was ill approximately zero times. I was in fairly rigorous training for the half marathon, running between 15 and 40 km per week for about 6 months of the year and...
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Crazy, Stupid Love and new shoes
Watched this film the other night and, whilst it scored an ‘ok’ on my film-o-meter 9000 scale of movie goodness, it did make one specific lasting impression on me. At one point, Steve Carrell’s...
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Running again
After my fairly intense training in 2008/9 I’ve had a few years of middling persistence with my running, doing the odd 5-10k training runs and little else. With slack control of my diet as well, my...
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Nick Harkaway’s Tigerman, & an Audible trial
So, like every other Amazon user I’ve been bombarded with ads for Audible for a little while. They’re tedious and overwhelming and I’ve generally ignored them. But since I’ve started listening to...
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