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Kim has been encouraging me (with a pointy stick) to increase my mileage as part of my pre-marathon training as the it’s only 11 weeks away now. I just brought my mileage record up to date (since August last year) and am happy to confirm that I had my biggest month since starting to write my blog [...] YES indeedie, two years have passed since I started writing this blog and if you’ve been reading it all this time, you probably deserve a drink! To celebrate, of course! Without the enigmatic Bok to keep me going through the winter, my results have been down on the first year, but only a touch. In fact, I have [...] Some 18 months ago, I commented on the signage that welcomes most people to Burgess Hill and since then have commented on it several times to the leader of the Burgess Hill Business Parks Association. This morning I had cause to run past Sheddingdean Industrial Estate again and found that a really discreet sign had indeed [...] [Edited slightly from the original to protect the innocent] As family and friends, colleagues and clients, I suspect that we have each seen different sides of him, and each carry a different version of this remarkable man around with us. I sincerely hope that, if you knew him, you might feel inclined to compare [...] What do you say to the friends & family, the spouse, children, parents or siblings, of a close friend who has died in tragic circumstances? Especially when you have your own personal thoughts, emotions, memories. This is a question that has been omnipresent over the last few days and it continued to mull around in my [...] I ran my current default circuit of 5.2 miles in 42 or 43 minutes today and whilst I wasn’t that impressed with the two or three minutes less that I took compared to last time I ran it, it did increase the speed to 7.3mph or thereabouts. I spent the run thinking about how we run [...] For those of you getting into running, or back into running, here are a few tips. First & foremost, get some decent gear. This will make the whole running experience WAY more enjoyable and whilst you don’t instantly need to go to the expense of breathable fabrics and gore waterproofs (although they do help with the [...] Hot on the heels of Burns Night this year comes Chinese New Year, or rather Niu year as it’s the Year of the Ox. The calender, started by the Xia people circa 2,205 BC, is based on astronomical observations and celebrates the start of the Lunar New Year. Each new year commences on the second New Moon after [...] Happy Burns Night, mi gud Scottish lassies and laddies More than two weeks have passed sans run, yet I am unrepentant… I have all my excuses neatly lined up. I thought that I would add a little more to these pages before the closing of the year, but now I’m actually here, I can only report that Christmas went in a blur. Along with 2008. May [...] |
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