Category Archives: fitness

content relating to my efforts to become a healthier human being

So Much to Say

So little time to say it. I don’t quite understand how I can be in a position where I’m my own boss, but don’t seem to be able to find time to keep my blog up to date. I suppose one of the impacts of twitter is that my need to spout off in public is served, without any of that tedious mucking about with writing coherent, cogent sentences.

Anyway, enough excuses, this is just a quick catch up to distract me from the process of colour grading November Rain, which is proving a little tricky with some of the lighting. So what’s been going on since the half marathon?

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Marlow Half Marathon, a novice perspective

A few months ago, I competed in my first 10k, and I enjoyed the experience so much that I decided I was capable of upping my game even further, and began toying with the idea of doing a half marathon. Unfortunately my brother took my toying seriously, and badgered me until I signed up for the Marlow Half Marathon, which it transpires is quite hilly (he was quite quiet about that).

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The British 10k

A typical Sunday morning will often see me sleep right through it, stagger blearily from my bed around lunchtime and weigh up the pros and cons of heading to the local cafe for a greasy spoon breakfast. So it was with some trepidation that I set my alarm for 7AM on Saturday night, knowing that I was planning on heading into the centre of London for my first 10k race. A night of disturbed sleep followed, my dreams filled with delayed buses, missed trains and various other time related concerns. Continue reading

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Finding my running mojo

April was a pretty crappy month for my running, with only four runs logged, one of which was actually an abject failure. So for May, I am endeavouring to recapture my running mojo. I basically concluded that the problems that I had developed were twofold.

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What I talk about when I talk about running

With apologies to Haruki Marukami for the blatant theft of the title. This post was originally going to be looking back over the last year, but it’s wound up solely discussing running. So I’ll try and get to the rest of my life in the next few days.

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