The Weald Challenge
When a race has its race HQ at a Chiddingly Primary School in a place called Muddles Green, you know it is going to be a homely, rural...
Three Forts
This post is adapted from an article I wrote for my running club magazine. In 2015, marathons have been, for me, like buses. I wait for...
Mental illness in Manchester
This post is adapted from an article I wrote for my running club magazine. The short version: I trained hard, overcame demons, didn’t...
Two Magpies
I am not by inclination superstitious. I like to think of myself as a rational child of the Enlightenment. The number ‘13’ holds no fears...
Doing nothing, badly
The first Monday of being 'signed off' work. I slept a little better last night than for some Sunday nights past. But guilt-driven...
Long slow run
Sunday is the traditional day for the long slow run for those training for marathons. Weekday evenings leave little time for a...
Running on empty
My doctor warned me I would feel worse before I felt better. And so it has proved. I managed to get up for my regular morning run,...
Fountain
Day two of taking Sertraline. I've moved on from 'someone who has taken an antidepressant' to 'someone who takes antidepressants'. Side...
Becoming someone other
Today I became someone other. Something other than I have previously conceived myself to be. I took my first dose of the antidepressant...
