• A Good Week

    Posted on 26 October 2025

    At the moment my social media feeds seem to be full of fairly negative news and so, largely for my own mental health, I’ve been tending not to read it too much. For the last few weeks I’ve been really busy at work and so, when I step away from... [Read More]
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  • 10k Looming

    Posted on 18 October 2025

    In two months, on 14 December, I’m signed up to run in the Christmas Cracker 2025, a 10 km race where runners are encouraged to wear fancy dress. Earlier this week, when I was wishing the son of the friends who I am running it with a happy birthday, it... [Read More]
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  • Emacs?

    Posted on 28 September 2025

    I’ve decided to take a look at Emacs. This is despite my on-going project to learn how to use Neovim. But I’ve realised that the two are not necessarily synonymous with Neovim being a text editor whilst Emacs is more of a ‘computing environment’ which contains an editor. [Read More]
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  • My First Bad Run?

    Posted on 17 August 2025

    Just over a week ago I did something to my foot and ankle whilst I was out for a run. It’s taken me until today to feel confident enough that it had healed to go running again. And I had was what I would consider to be my first bad... [Read More]
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  • Six Months In And Out Of The Saddle

    Posted on 9 August 2025

    Six months after I first wrote about Zwift I thought it would be good to write about my longer-term thoughts. I’ve had a bit of an on-off relationship with Zwift, some caused by it and some caused by me and other external factors. [Read More]
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  • Updating My Blog

    Posted on 26 July 2025

    A few days ago I wrote a post about blogging services where I summarised suggestions for simple blogging services after a friend asked me for recommendations. Whilst I was doing that I decided that my blog needed a bit of a refresh and general tidy-up. [Read More]
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  • Simple Blogging

    Posted on 23 July 2025

    I was recently asked how I host my blog. The answer is that I use a static website generator called Jekyll and the site it generates is hosted on GitHub Pages (GitHub is a repository where developers can store and share their code). This is a bit of a geeky... [Read More]
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  • Parkrunner

    Posted on 19 July 2025

    Five week ago I started drafting a blog post but never progressed beyond the opening paragraph. Part of that was due to my own progress with exercise stalling but with things getting back on track it’s time to finish that post and tick off one of my fitness goals. [Read More]
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