10K
On 14 December I did my first 10K. Both in terms of distance and event.
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Slow Running
Back in August I said that I needed to get better at slow running. It was a bit of a throw-away comment back then, but I am now actually focusing on slower running to improve my aerobic base so it feels like a good time to write up some thoughts... [Read More] -
A Good Week
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] -
10k Looming
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] -
Emacs?
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] -
My First Bad Run?
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] -
Six Months In And Out Of The Saddle
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] -
Belated Annual Goals
I usually dislike the idea of setting goals around the start of the year because they are very rarely kept and then it just becomes miserable looking back on how many you failed to achieve. [Read More] -
Updating My Blog
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] -
Simple Blogging
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]