2013 Island Race
This was my second half-marathon of ‘the 13 Challenge’ and it seems the organisers put together a promo video of the event. A beautiful part of the world!
This was my second half-marathon of ‘the 13 Challenge’ and it seems the organisers put together a promo video of the event. A beautiful part of the world!
Despite the run tomorrow, it was a decent sunny day today and having a big cycle challenge in little more than a month’s time (and never having ridden further than about 7 miles) I thought…
Well I always knew that phase 1 of the house build was just that, and what comes after is phase 2. Wednesday was that new beginning, when the plasterwork in the bedroom, held on purely…
I never have my decent camera with me when I’m at work. Thankfully my phone does have a fixed-lens camera and it’s not too bad. The sun was setting over the city and looked spectacular….
Just a quick afternoon update whilst I’m in front of the computer. The title today is both physical in terms of racing and metaphorical in terms of where I’m at with life. Been one of…
I must say getting going today was quite difficult which, for a race day, is quite unusual. 3 attempts to leave the house – cats and wallets getting the better of me before Waze decided…
Two more races booked now. Buxton in a fortnight’s time and Capesthorne, one of my latter ones of the challenge, back in November. So that means 12 out of the 13 half-marathons are booked, leaving…
I’ve had an old broken wardrobe in the house for about 6 years although it finally made it’s way near the front door about 3 weeks ago when I needed the space it was occupying….
It’s been one of those weeks that fit the runaway train metaphor. Monday started with me thinking that it would be really useful to get some paperwork boxed off. This was finally done on Friday…
Sometimes when you’ve had a really tough week a good blast of Endorphins is perfect medicine. Clearly taking the prescribed medication also helps as I discovered getting home from work on Friday night to find…