| Why haven't I been blogging? I realised towards the end of July that I hadn’t runblogged in almost a month. Since the literary effort that was Juneathon, I’d certainly not been feeling any obligation to fill the internet with daily musings but I hadn’t expected to totally stop. It wasn’t for a lack of running either, I realised with some surprise that I’d clocked just over 200 miles in July, more even than June; the month with the ultramarathon! Actually, my running diary had been pretty full with ongoing training, various races, meeting new groups of runners, travel and related running adventures in new places, ParkRun tourism and the like. I decided to do a summary blog for July, like a round up for the month. I was away the week August rolled around however, and though I’ve been back a week, I find myself no more motivated to sit down and actually write it so I decided instead to reflect on why that might be as it would probably be a good deal more interesting. |  Bit of a way, that...  Hadleigh Castle; for hill reps with Leigh-on-Sea Striders! |
 A foot selfie with a difference! The internet is already groaning under the weight of repetitive speed/distance/time data, pictures of yet more medals, discussions of new types of energy gel and selfies of sweaty finish line faces and of swollen toes. The only reps I think I, or anyone else for that matter will actually benefit from are the kind I do on a hill or a track. I shall, therefore, refrain from pointlessly vomiting my daily experiences into the digital void until I actually have something I think might be worth mentioning. I’ve learned in life that there are two kinds of people in this regard… the ones who talk all the time and don’t actually say much and the ones who are mostly silent but to whom you really want to listen when they do speak up. I hope I might be considered more closely akin to the latter, so feel free to browse my old posts, I hope you gain something from them, and do watch this space if you want… but you may have a bit of a wait for anything new. Hopefully though, you’ll actually want to read whatever that might end up being about! | I’ve come to the conclusion that frankly, I’ve nothing new to say on running at the moment. Interestingly, I started blogging for Juneathon, continued, peaked, troughed (along with my fitness and health!) picked up again, and it seems, rounded up by finishing on Juneathon. A nice round 12 months of runblog. And so the cycle starts again. I’ve created a little record of a year of learning and physical experiences that chart the distance covered in more ways than one and I’ve enjoyed looking back over it and seeing just how much I’ve done in 12 months, but, I don’t feel I have much to add right now. “I ran 10k!” “I’m doing a half marathon!” “I ate a banana, got a blister, foam rolled my ITB, charged my Garmin, bought some new trainers, ran to work, went to track, did some yoga, failed to plank, had a good run, a bad run, got the runs, ate a flapjack, ran a trail, ran on the road, ran in a park” Run, Eat, Sleep. Blog. Repeat. These are not new experiences for me anymore. I am consolidating, not discovering. What do you need to know?  With Sarah for UKRunChat at TR24 |
Smoke me some strawberries... I'll be back when I've something to say...!
