Author Archives: stevetolmie

Several hours behind schedule, but now reasonably up to date with inter-planetary exploration, I ‘go running’.  My rugby-playing daughter has given me tips on how to warm up without injuring myself and I have found a fantastically bright red T-shirt to wear so that I will be easily found if I keel over during theContinue reading “Run 1 (Part 3)”

Shoes.  You need running shoes.  The old walking shoes I was going to use had very thin hard soles.  No use for absorbing the shock of impact, so it was off to the Very Big Sports Shop.  The Very Big Sports Shop has a heck of a lot of running shoes.  When I had lastContinue reading “Run 1 (part 2)”

The first run of a new running programme is probably the hardest.  As you will see, but not necessarily for the reasons you might expect. First, you don’t just ‘go running’ again when you are 57 and haven’t ‘gone running’ since 1995.  For a start, you realise that you don’t have anything you can goContinue reading “Run 1 (part 1)”