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 behind the Brighton University Falmer campus, through Westlain woods, and up beyond, to what I now know as the highest point of the Bevendean Down parkrun, though this was long before anyone thought of parkruns. I did this in 2003, and have been running more or less continuously, with gaps for injury, ever since.

So it is meet and fitting to review my running now: I am slow anyway, but being in the post-acute stages of a COVID-19 infection, I am easily fatigued, so have started to work my way through the Couch to 5k programme yet again. I had a place in the Crowborough 10k in two weeks time, but have had to abandon that. With a bit of luck, the Cambridge half marathon at the beginning of March is still a realistic goal.