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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…
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The week in running: back to the Twittens
The highlight of the week was a return to Lewes’s fabled Twitten run, which approaches its sixth anniversary. I last tackled it on 11th July 2021. By chance, as I ran it with Rob, Nick and Bec, we happened…
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Video, videre, vidi, visum
I have ventured into the world of the YouTube influencer. I am unlikely to make my fortune, as the number of people interested in the finer points of biomedical database searching is finite, but I was asked by Health Education…
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Life in the old dog yet
Today, 8th November, is an anniversary, though an event whose anniversary we mark the day before, the Great October Socialist Revolution, may have had a greater impact on the world. The October revolution happened on 7th November on the new…
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Roaming in the gloaming
There’s something special about the first late afternoon run after the clocks go back. I went out into fierce winds blowing foam over the Seaford Head golf course, and down to the seafront. It reminds me of the winter Sunday…
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It’s been quiet, Carruthers, too damned quiet
I haven't written anything here for a ridiculously long time, but today I completed the Couch to 5k programme, and this is worthy of comment. I have turned to this to recover from injury several times in recent years; this…
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Shane Godbolt, 1943-2019
Shane and me at the launch of the North Thames Regional Documents Database Shane Godbolt died on 24th November 2019. I am not qualified to write a full obituary, but these are some memories. I first met her in the…
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Annual running totals: distance and elevation, 2005 to 2019
I went on to look at annual totals from 2005 onwards, to put this year in perspective. In particular, I found that 2019 was not the lowest distance I’ve ever managed: both 2013 and 2014 were worse. This is heartening.…
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2019 in running: worse things happen at sea
The year started well: I fell from a wall while giving the Seaford Striders a pre-run briefing for their New Year’s Day run, breaking my arm. Before After …
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Progress: weeks 5, 6 and 7, including a Cambridge run
Week 7 concluded this week, with a run in Lewes, through the Priory as members of Southover Bonfire Society prepared their fire site, then up Juggs Road. It was a beautiful sunny day after yesterday’s storms. When I’m doing greater…