July 25th 2019 Today I marked my triumphant return to running with a bang, and a crash, and a faceplant. I was so giddy to be out running, on this the hottest day of the year/century/planetary existence, that I decided … Continue reading Faceplant
July 22nd 2019 Today I wanted to say that I’ve officially started a new “exercise every day for 21 days” challenge, but I played football this evening and my feet are in a bad way, so it’s possible that I’ll have to stop my streak after one day. There’s this trend going around Instagram called “100 Days Of Sweat” wherein, and get this, you sweat for 100 days. Or, more accurately and less grossly, you do some form of exercise every day for 100 days. Sweating all day every day would not be fun. I’ve done a 21 consecutive day … Continue reading Sweat
July 15th 2019 Today I played football and realised that my base level of fitness is completely gone. I’m not a fantastic footballer, but the one thing that has always given me an advantage when I play five/six-a-side is that I can run fast, and I can run far. Well, I used to be able to. When everyone else was struggling towards the end of the match, I’d still be sprinting up and down the pitch, and that made me look better than I probably am. That’s gone now though, it seems. The reason my fitness has gone is that … Continue reading Puffed
July 11th 2019 Today I skipped another track session. It’s been a while since I’ve been, and I do need to go back. I’m just really not motivated for it at the moment. I’m not motivated by any type of … Continue reading Inclined
June 24th 2019 Today I had to tell myself “Just keep running, just keep running, just keep running”. I had that cartoonish angel/demon thing on each shoulder, one telling me to stop running, one telling me to keep going. I … Continue reading Shoulder
June 23rd 2019 Today I drove to Newbury for a round of golf at the Donnington Grove course. It’s a championship course where they apparently held one leg of the European Tour at some point a few years ago. That … Continue reading Donnington
June 18th 2019 Today one of the guys from the running club at work held a bootcamp/coaching session all about cadence and breathing. I’m sure, by the fact that if you’re reading this then you are (probably) a living human … Continue reading Breathing
June 17th 2019 Today I tried to shock my body into feeling better by completely knackering it out with a double session of exercise. I went for a five mile run at lunch time — though I skipped the hilly … Continue reading Exercise
May 29th 2019 Today Arsenal got trounced in a European final and I’m not sure whether I don’t really care that much because A) We lost or B) I don’t really care that much. It’s hard to tell because obviously losing in such a manner has made me feel relatively indifferent about the occasion, but if “we” had’ve won, would I have been ecstatic? I’m not sure. Because I’m not sure that I care that much anymore. That is, of course, something that is really easy to say after being trounced 4-1 in a final, but I think it’s held … Continue reading Allegiance
May 27th 2019 Today we went down to South Cerney for the annual “Second Bank Holiday Monday In May Duck Race” in my grandparent’s village. We’ve been going to it every year for as long as I can remember. This … Continue reading Cerney
