Category Archives: Running

OK, so let’s move along from toes and briefly pause at the instep.  I’m glad I have paused here because just a few clicks of the mouse have helped me realise that all my life I have been confusing the arch of the foot with the instep; I thought they were the same thing.  IContinue reading “More bits of the foot”

I’m still not back running yet, so the blog has been even quieter than it would have been because of Christmas.  Anyway, my back is getting better so I still believe that I can be running again soon.  In preparation for this, I have been doing an audit of my legs to check that theyContinue reading “Toes!”

Hares are good at running.  In fact, they are Britain’s fastest land mammal, capable of speeds of about 43mph – usually reached when they are running away from predators. There’s a hare in Keats’ poem Eve of St Agnes, but it’s going nowhere near 43mph.  Keats tells us that “the hare limped through the frozenContinue reading “Things that can run – Hares”

Well, if I can’t run, maybe I can read about it.  Running features in some famous mid/late 20th Century fiction such as Alan Sillitoe’s Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and William Goldman’s Marathon Man (maybe not as well known as the film on which it is based, starring Dustin Hoffman?), but what about theContinue reading “Running in Literature”

The running programme is postponed for a while because I’ve been an idiot and hurt my back falling off a child’s trampoline. I was lucky. Bruised coccyx, damaged muscles and wounded pride. I’ve since read up on the serious neck, spine and head injuries caused by trampoline accidents or misuse and the stats make forContinue reading “Running and Trampolines”

The New Forest exists much as it is thanks to William the Conqueror as I understand it.  Apparently he decided the area would make a good spot for hunting, cleared out several villages and settlements and off he went.  I do hope this isn’t the sort of streamlined planning process that Boris Johnson has inContinue reading “Run 3”

Ah, yes. The day after the run… A lot of aching seems to be taking place. Definitely not recovering like a 17 year-old. There will be none of this “I’m going running every day” malarkey. But it is only aching. No actual injuries that I’m aware of. And it’s a worthy sort of aching. IfContinue reading “Run 2 (part 3)”

Well, what a pleasant surprise that was. I survived. I always felt I would actually, as I still retain the 17-yr-old me’s belief in my immortality. Mind you, mere survival is not really the aim of this exercise. I am looking to feel fitter and generally glow with health and vitality. I want to getContinue reading “Run 2 (part 2)”

I said last time that I wouldn’t be running 5km any time soon.  And I’m right.  I’m going to run 7km instead. My yoga friends also go running at the weekend in a nice bit of countryside and invited me along when I proudly told them I had a new pair of running shoes. IContinue reading “Run 2 (part 1)”

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)”