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Running, records (and lies) on the Salt Path
As we popped down onto the beach at Babbacombe, there he was, perfect timing, ambling towards us with his running backpack and a weary smile: Dan Lawson.I got so excited I started talking to a couple sitting in deck chairs next to a white camper van (I thought it was Dan’s crew for some reason): “Amazing! He’s doing amazing! And what perfect timing.”They looked at me confused as I ran off to meet him. He seemed a little teary and said he’d just been through a bad patch, but for the next 12 miles

2025年07月07日

Records fall, records don't fall, books get written
Today is first-draft deadline day for my Ireland book, and I’m still writing. I’ve been in a tunnel with it the last week, which has been fun, shaping this thing, honing it, but I’m still deep in it, and with little room, time, or space in my mind for much else.I saw there was some interesting running going on this week. The Western States 100 was fast, as the sport of ultra running continues to get ever more professional. Kilian Jornet ran over an hour quicker than the year he won the race, and

2025年06月30日

Getting the first (writing) lap of Ireland in the bag
All smiles on the Ha’Penny Bridge after the first lap.I touched the Ha’Penny Bridge in Dublin again last night. In my writing. I completed the loop, writing about that moment I came running down alongside the Liffy with a posse of runners singing Cockles and Mussels. It’s only a very rough first draft, which is about 25,000 words too long, but it felt almost as satisfying to reach the end in the story as it did in real life. Though the post-run Guinness tasted better in real life.So 115,000 word

2025年06月23日

The watch sometimes lies
I ended last week’s newsletter with the words: “The fast 5K will just have to wait.” And then, the very next weekend, less than 10 minutes from my house, there was a race literally called the “Fast 5000”. Ah, shucks, I couldn’t resist.For those not following every twist and turn of my recent running story, a few months ago I set myself a goal of running a 5K in under 18 minutes. Since then, I’d run two fast 5Ks, the first in 18:00 and the second in 18:19. But also I have the deadline for my book

2025年06月16日