• The Taunton Trail 10K

    Posted on 24 May 2026

    I have a goal to run four 10K races in 2026 and this morning I ran the first. It was the Taunton Trail 10K which takes place, unsurprisingly, in Taunton in Somerset. The race is run along the banks of the canal and river and so is very flat which... [Read More]
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  • Downtime

    Posted on 4 January 2026

    Over the last year in particular I have started to use my blog to track things like my fitness goals and projects. Last week, towards the end of 2025, I saw lots of people posting lists of books, video games, TV shows, films, etc. that they had enjoyed during the... [Read More]
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  • The Fear Of Change

    Posted on 31 December 2025

    This time last year I was spending a lot of time thinking about my own mortality and about how I wanted to change my lifestyle. I needed to do something about my weight and fitness and had done for a long time. I had friends and relatives who had lost... [Read More]
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  • Slow Running

    Posted on 25 November 2025

    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]
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  • 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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