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It's all up(hill) from here
Pathetic fallacy: the weather reflecting my mood this week.I'M HOPING THAT I’ll soon look back at this week’s Musings, this past week just gone, and think: “That was the low point. That was rock bottom. It all got better after that.”Ever since I played that game of Lads vs Dads football last December, I’ve been fighting a heel injury that has seen me struggle to run even 20 miles a week and left me pulling out of two races I was hugely looking forward to, The Grizzly and the Manchester Marathon.

2024年04月15日

Enhance, fix ... and then breathe
Pondering bigger things.I feel like I’m disintegrating as I sink under an ocean of content, events, to-do lists, holiday activities, editing jobs, heel aches and back pains. So apologies that I’m a bit late with my Musings this week.Where to start? Right now I’m on the train back from London after a bizarre meeting with Aron d’Souza, the founder of the Enhanced Games. You may have heard of it? It’s a new version of the Olympics where athletes are allowed to dope. In fact, doping is encouraged...

2024年04月09日

Tennis, injuries and the world cross country champs
Kinsale, IrelandThis long Easter weekend has had the effect holidays often have of days losing their definition, routines being forgotten. Today doesn’t feel like a Monday. And yet, it’s time to muse again. It’s like I have to shake my head back into thinking mode.This sense is compounded by the feeling that many of my stories are currently paused mid-sentence. My injury story, for instance. It may be getting better (I hope). But I can’t be sure. On Tuesday, 5km into a 7km run, in which that fam

2024年04月01日

A Hollywood thriller of a race
The lead actors at this year’s Barkley Marathons (aka the finishers)Ah, the Barkley Marathons. I sometimes wonder, if I hadn’t seen the film, would I care about this race? Or would it be like the tree falling in the woods that no one hears? Would it even make a sound?But after seeing the film (or films) and getting to know the folklore, and the icon that is the race director, Lazarus Lake, each year I find myself being sucked in to the Twitter feed of Keith, the only official media coverage of t

2024年03月25日