Hope Mountain Runner Rides Again
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Hope Mountain Runner Rides Again
I thought maybe my running days were done. Turns out they're not.
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I don’t really do this very often, but when I’ve gone to the trouble of building myself a spreadsheet that lets me compare what I’ve planned to do against what I’ve done, I may aswell have a butchers and see what nuggets I can extract:
Total distance r...
Much as us Brits love a good moan about the weather, we ain't doing too bad really. I can tell.
One way I can tell is by the fact that since I moved into my new house I've been commuting for work either by bicycle or on foot every single day that I can...
Work hard, play hard, keep partying like it’s your job....
Great tune 😊. Great timing 😊. Great memories of Rachel Kelly’s rather suggestive and inappropriately erotic dancing, for a work’s night out anyway, in a pair of heels higher than stilts! She d...
Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day…
Well how wonderful does it feel to have a warm sun shining down on your back?
I had pencilled in the monthly 10k at Chirk Castle, get out on the trails, but something inside me was stirring. Somethin...
Some days I haven’t slept well the night before.
Some days I’m dehydrated.
Some days I feel lethargic and know I’m far from 100%.
Some days I’ve got a million and one things on my mind.
Some days I haven’t managed to eat properly, or get away from w...
It's only going to be a quick blog this, but it's one I need to get down.
I'm struggling.
I made a commitment to a friend, a good friend. One I value more highly than I think she'll ever now. One who inspires me, and many other people, way more than s...
Start as you mean to go on they say.
Well the way I mean to go on this year is getting some joy back into my running.
That isn’t coming my way if I do my running on the roads. It doesn’t inspire me. The tarmac hurts me. The drudgery of being held in a...
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Left calf / achilles knotted and tight at less than a mile.
First signs of knee pain about 4 miles in.
Didn’t want to run another step after 2 and 1/2 miles done.
I should remember...
Ive run about 20...
I didn’t mean to lie. I wasn’t even conscious of the fact that I was doing it at the time. I certainly didn’t do it with any intent.
I stepped out today for what genuinely felt like my first fell race since I smashed up my knee on Whernside’s protrudin...
... Maybe we’ll turn back the hands of time
Let’s go round again
One more time (one more time)...
‘Run every day’ I thought
“Run every day” I said
Run every day, I did.
For 44 days straight, until circumstances got on top of me and I, disappoin...
May 23rd. Day 28.
It’s 5:30am. Alarm goes off. Again. I am not ready for it this morning. Not ready at all. 5 minutes later, 2nd alarm. If I didn’t have to get up to turn it off, I would have, but I don’t wanna get up. Why did I choose to put it the ot...
May 12th. Day 17.
It’s a bit of a landmark in my mind. Clair and I head off to a parkrun in Northwich that we only discovered existed just the weekend before. Parkrun. 3 miles. Long time since I’ve run that far, and after 16 days straight of running a ...
I’m not doing it for Kudos.
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the encouragement. I’m grateful to those of you who are so generous with your time as to bother with that little thumbs up for me.
I feel bad that I have neither the time, nor inclination, t...
March 10th.
A day of absolutely no significance whatsoever.
As I have watched my lovely Clair time and again drag herself out of bed at 5:30 in a morning to go get some running done, my own motivation has waned.
She doesn’t really want to get up at t...
2007.
A moment. A real turning point in life. Tearful breakdown at the side of the road. Crying about no longer being able to ride my bike up the hill. Crying about no longer being able to fly on Concorde. Decision made. London marathon to be run.
Ca...
Well it’s taken longer than I thought it would to be able to put into words that which I experienced on THAT weekend.
The weekend I have looked forward to this year as the year before and the year before that and the year before that….
The weekend I a...
I'm 45.
Yup, 45 years old. Motoring on towards half a century on this mortal coil and heading towards 20 years beyond the human body's physical peak.
Mentally, I'll be honest, I'm feeling tired, a bit battered and bruised, bedraggled, embattled…. Life...
It seems strangely self indulgent to be writing a blog right now. A man died on Sunday doing the very thing that we were doing, on the very roads that we were on.
I said there were too many ambulances.
Out loud I said it was going to be too many peo...
It’s Marathon Time Again.
Corr blimey – haven’t blogged for a long time have I?
Many are the reasons for that.
But here we are, on the Monday before the marathon that is coming up on Sunday.
The first of 2 for me this month.
The first, and quite li...
Cadair Idris.
Idris' Chair.
It peaks at 893m (2,930ft) high, and I've raced to its summit and back on 2 occasions before.
First attempt in 2012 involved a near death experience, when trying to dodge the chaos of all the runners and walkers dodging...
Well how is life for everybody in the land of Realbuzz?
Long time absent I know, and unusual timing of it too.
Over the last 9 years I've built myself a tradition of writing blogs about my own running experiences, reading all of yours, supporting and...
Bit of a delay publishing this one, but here goes:
If we could choose our perfect parkrun venue, I bet a lot of us would plump for Memory Lane.
For me on Saturday morning, Memory Lane was Wilmslow Carrs.
I only recently found out Wilmslow even has a p...
Well if you'd told me at the start of the year that life would be what it is now, I'd have told you you must be stark raving mad!
Life is good 😊.
Genuinely good 😊.
Havent blogged in ages, but actually, haven't really felt the need.
I've known for a long...
Kylie Minogue
Dead or Alive
Tommy Roe
Flo Rida
Vic and Bob!!
I think between them they still haven't touched on just how much the start of 2017 has got me spinning round.
I feel like I'm spinning plates and juggling whilst riding round on a unicycle in ...
