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Walthamstow parkrun 26 Aug 2013 | 05:41 pm
I cracked. I could take it no more. Despite being injured, despite knowing that it was probably a bad idea, despite my only rehab instruction being to rest, I yielded to temptation and completed a p...
I don’t pay road tax but I use the roads. 22 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
How cheeky am I? Every time I leave the house, I use some of Britain’s roads. Sometimes I use them as a pedestrian, sometimes as a cyclist, sometimes as a bus passenger and sometimes as a car driver...
Learning to draw 18 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
Learning to draw has long been a velleity* of mine, so when I read about a course which promised that “if you can write your name you can learn to draw“, I signed up. Day 1: (pre-instruction) Day 2:...
Runners, runners, everywhere. 15 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
I’m still not running. My foot is improving, but although many things are back in the painless pot, brisk walking and running are not. On the plus side, that does leave me plenty of time for volunte...
Exploring the possibilities 8 Aug 2013 | 04:51 pm
My training plan for Sunday reads: Long bike ride. Explore, no limit on how far you want to go. Explore. Investigate. Scout. Map. Discover. Reconnoitre. A word with possibilities. A word whic...
We went to the Okanagan Valley 8 Aug 2013 | 01:57 am
We drove there from Vancouver… …stopping for (non-alcoholic) cocktails in Chilliwack. …We admired the view from 3 mile beach… …herded small children around Andy’s Animal Acres… …went on a chau...
You know you are a runner 4 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
Just under two years ago, I went to an early edition of Nonsuch parkrun. As usual, I arrived stupidly early and wound up talking to a runner called Richard McChesney, also a parkrun tourist, who had ...
There’s a crack in my rose-tinted spectacles. 3 Aug 2013 | 11:09 pm
I love parkrun*. I love the venues, I love the people, I love the t-shirts, I love the low key nature and I love the statistics. It turned me into a runner, it turned me into a collector and it gets...
You spin me right round 29 Jul 2013 | 07:55 pm
I did it. I dragged myself out of bed and into a spin class. My glutes may never be the same again, but I’m more than happy to sacrifice them to the god of smug. Lazy day, here I come.
I meant to go spinning yesterday… 28 Jul 2013 | 03:46 am
…but couldn’t drag myself out of bed. I meant to go spinning today… …but didn’t remember to set the alarm. I can’t go spinning tomorrow… …as there are no classes on Sunday. So to save myself from...
