While I’m not a new runner, my latest return to running has been guided by a method more commonly associated to newer Ordinary Runners. Has it worked for me? Read on to find out.
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Not Goals – a reflection on 2023
Early 2023, I posted a post about not posting a lot in 2022.
The reason I didn’t post a lot in 2022 was, mostly, because I didn’t run a lot in 2022. What I did, was learn about intention, motivation and not setting unachievable goals.
With those lessons in mind, I chose not to set myself any goals for 2023. Instead, I went with Not Goals.
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Not Goals
As I huffed up the hill towards Cissbury Ring, I thought, “this is great.”
Running without any pressure to hit certain targets is genuinely liberating. It’s why I’ve ditched my previous obsession with having clear running goals in favour of the much less clear “Not Goals.”
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A reflection on 2022
If it feels like a long time since I last flexed my Ordinary Runner muscles, that’s because it is. In the year since my last post, I’ve been trying to understand what it means to be not a runner. If, that is, I am not a runner.
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Running Tracks – a reminiscence
Parental advisory, this blog contains swearing. I’ve recently read Rob Deering’s Running Tracks and was reminded of a time when music and running played in […]
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Running is bad for you
Some would say A friend of mine, we’ll call her Gemma, will tell you, unequivocally, that running is bad for you. And, in her experience, […]
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Why am I getting slower?
When I wasn’t getting slower Back in 2019 I hit two PBs. One I’m happy with, the other I’m determined to beat. The latter is […]
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Time off from running
Running or injury There’s running and there’s injury. When you’re running, you’re running. When you’re injured, you’re still running until you can’t run anymore. Then […]
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Dad La Soul 10k for World Mental Health Day
The run 10am on the 10th October 2020. World Mental Health Day. Bob Smytherman’s digitally compressed tintinnabulation sent a pack of dads on a 10km […]
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How to survive the Great Garmin Connect Outage of 2020
What’s the problem? On the 24th of July 2020, social media was mobbed with “is anyone else having problems uploading to Garmin Connect?” Days later, […]
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