It was a better year than some. I was derailed by injury in September, sustaining bruised ribs in a fall. I was not running at the time, but walking innocently around London.  I entered few races and completed fewer, having to forego place in the Lewes Downland and the Hellingly 10k, because of the ribs.…

I haven’t used this blog in anger for a very long time but the time seems ripe to revive it. Twitter – I refuse to call it X- is no longer useful. The advertisements are annoying and laughable, and the search function simply doesn’t work properly any more. Unlike some, I can’t say that I…

2023 is over, as far as running is concerned, my last run being Seaford Beach parkrun this morning. Much to my astonishment the year shows some improvement. I recorded my highest total running distance since 2018, 545 miles, and that without running anything longer than a 10k-and-a-bit. I’m not sure what to attribute this to,…

It’s a little late to review last year. I’m already got four 2023 runs under my belt. Nevertheless, this is what it looks like. Only one year, 2013 recorded a were total mileage (406 against 2022’s 436).  Injury accounts for some of this: I some falls, some while running, some at home, and found getting…

  I write this later than I should, but by Sunday just gone I had five weeks left to go, and had done another run that covered a distance greater than I had run at any time since June of last year. It was surprisingly easy, in spite of cold grey weather and a bit…

  The highlight of the week was a return to Lewes’s fabled Twitten run, which approaches its sixth anniversary. I last tackled it on 11th July 2021. By chance, as I ran it with Rob, Nick and Bec, we happened upon its founder and only begetter, Duncan, on his way to Blackcap. Other runs comprised…

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There’s something special about the first late afternoon run after the clocks go back. I went out into fierce winds blowing foam over the Seaford Head golf course, and down to the seafront. It reminds me of the winter Sunday afternoons of childhood, in the back of my father’s Austin Cambridge, driving homewards from Ely…

Shane and me at the launch of the North Thames Regional Documents Database Shane Godbolt died on 24th November 2019. I am not qualified to write a full obituary, but these are some memories. I first met her in the 1990s, but her fame preceded her: Information Sources in the Medical Sciences, whose 3rd and…

I went on to look at annual totals from 2005 onwards, to put this year in perspective. In particular, I found that 2019 was not the lowest distance I’ve ever managed: both 2013 and 2014 were worse. This is heartening.  

The year started well: I fell from a wall while giving the Seaford Striders a pre-run briefing for their New Year’s Day run, breaking my arm. Before After                         Then at Easter I fell during the Seaford beach parkrun, while discussing the Forest Red-tailed…

Week 7 concluded this week, with a run in Lewes, through the Priory as members of Southover Bonfire Society prepared their fire site, then up Juggs Road. It was a beautiful sunny day after yesterday’s storms. When I’m doing greater distances I might follow this route to Kingston and up onto the hills above.  Week…