Back to work
Whilst I didn’t manage to get away from these shores for a holiday due to the collapse of Thomas Cook, I did manage to take a week off work. It was necessary as the summer…
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XC season begins
I’ve not done anywhere near as much running recently as I would do usually. The impact of a busy summer work season has meant that running has taken something of a back seat. I did…
World Mental Health Day
I’ll admit that I know I’m a day late as #WMHD was actually yesterday. But in my defence, I thought we’d already had a #WMHD this year already. Mental Health at least now does seem…
Cyprus 2019 – part 1
It seems strange that it’s 12 months since my first overseas trip from the UK in 7 years and my first international race. But time flies and I’m back in Cyprus to do international races…
Adventures in music
An Introduction The (very) early years As a youngster, my life completely revolved around music. I’d played piano from the age of 6 (that’s when I started having lessons). As I worked my way through…
Food, glorious food
With Christmas approaching and the unbridled food-fest that comes with it, I thought I’d do a post about food. I’ve had a slightly uncomfortable relationship with food for much of my life, although the reasons…
A Day in Life – re-purposed in 2018
About 3 years ago, I reorganised all my writings to focus on more running aspects. Indeed since then, the whole of the website has been re-purposed to support the running that I do along with…
Why I run
After many years of hammering my body on the roads chasing after PBs, I’ve realised that I’ve lost a lot of the enjoyment that I used to get from running. In this blog I set out my thoughts about how this happened and what I’m doing to find my missing mojo.
Revisiting #REDBED
It seems like a long time ago that I embarked on a charity fund-raiser for MIND back in December 2017. In conjunction with the ‘Run Up 2 Christmas‘ project co-ordinated by a fabulous couple of…
RunLimassol
Here’s my write-up of the 2018 RunLimassol festival in Cyprus. I took a weeks holiday to participate along with other members of the UKRunChat community