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It was a better year than some. I was derailed by injury in September, sustaining bruised ribs in a fall. I was not running at the time, but walking innocently around London. I entered few races and completed fewer, having…
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Twenty years on
I haven’t used this blog in anger for a very long time but the time seems ripe to revive it. Twitter – I refuse to call it X- is no longer useful. The advertisements are annoying and laughable, and the…
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2023 in running
2023 is over, as far as running is concerned, my last run being Seaford Beach parkrun this morning. Much to my astonishment the year shows some improvement. I recorded my highest total running distance since 2018, 545 miles, and that…
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2022 in running
It’s a little late to review last year. I’m already got four 2023 runs under my belt. Nevertheless, this is what it looks like. Only one year, 2013 recorded a were total mileage (406 against 2022’s 436). Injury accounts for…
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Nineteen years of running
I traditionally post here on the anniversary of the run that began my current phase of running. The anniversary was actually yesterday, but posting here is so infrequent that I don’t think a day matters. It was a trip out…
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Brighton Half Marathon
On Sunday, the day I turned 67, I ran the Brighton Half Marathon, my seventh time at this event, and my thirtieth half-marathon overall. My lack of training told, I’m sorry to say, and I finished in 3:05:11. My fastest…
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Five weeks to go
I write this later than I should, but by Sunday just gone I had five weeks left to go, and had done another run that covered a distance greater than I had run at any time since June of…
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A week of runs at sunset
This week went reasonably well. I ran three times, as required by the training programme, culminating in 4.9 miles today. The last time I ran as far as that was in June of last year. For some reason, all my…
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Training for an accidental half marathon
Whether I had drink taken, or had an episode of memory loss, I cannot say, but I apparently entered the Brighton Half. I discovered this when I decided to volunteer to marshal the event, and on registering was told I…
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2021 in running
I was feeling unhappy with 2021 as a running year: few races, but then that’s true for everyone, and I had to do Couch to 5k twice to get back from injury, as well as leading the Seaford Striders C25K…