Fluorescent pink jacket? Check. So-well-worn-it-squeaks running bag? Check. Work skirt, tights and grumpy face? Errr... Check. That's because instead of running home as planned I am on the Tube, fending off guilt. I made it a rule, when I started 'run-commuting' that if I went to the effort of coming in with all my kit … Continue reading Running out of steam
Long-distance thoughts
Take your earphones off and throw them in the Thames*
After that I ditched the earphones more and more. Now I save my iPod for long runs, when This American Life or In Our Time distract me from just how far I have to go, and for runs when I need The Montage Effect.
New year, old me
First run of the year. First run as a fledgling run blogger! New year, new legs! I would bound like a gazelle in the chill January air (never mind the geographically mixed metaphor). I would write an inspiring post, full of new starts and clean slates and other images of freshness and potential. I would … Continue reading New year, old me
At the start line
It's a new year, a new start. On January 1, miraculously, all your bad habits will fall away and you will emerge, energised by super-foods and super-discipline, into a new and healthier dawn. New year, new you. That's the promise of this week's newspapers and blogs and magazines. Except it was the same old me who … Continue reading At the start line
Cut and run like clockwork 