The ring of hope
I first started to run during the COVID pandemic. For the first time in my life, I struggled with my mental health. For a while, I internalised how I felt and started to feel stuck and isolated. On...
I first started to run during the COVID pandemic. For the first time in my life, I struggled with my mental health. For a while, I internalised how I felt and started to feel stuck and isolated. On...
It’s been a couple of months since I last wrote a blog post. Things have been busy and challenging for me, but I am trying to take small steps in the right direction. This post will be brief, but, ...
The short answer to this is, no. We can’t run away from this - as explained in ultrarunner Damian Hall’s excellent book titled “We can’t run away from this”. When I started running, I didn’t quite...
Times are changing and I wish to be part of this change. I can now say that I have the pleasure of being one of the Re-Action Collectives’ and Preloved Sports’ first (un)sponsored athletes. In thi...
At 8 am on Saturday morning, we set off in the cold morning light. It was pretty cold but dry, so I decided not to wear a coat at the start as I envisioned warming up pretty quickly on the first cl...
I’ve been meaning to write this blog for a while now and since one of my pledges for the Green Runners this year is to speak out more, I decided that I should write it sooner rather than later. I’...
I’ve not written a blog post since I wrote about my big run over the summer and I’ve been meaning to do so for a while. To get back into the swing of things, I wanted to write a few thoughts about ...
Well, what can I say, on the 22nd of June I ran just over 135 km from Cambridge to Oxford in around 14 hrs 40 minutes to raise money for Macular Society. This blog post is a post run report (writte...
This post is slightly different to other posts, but it discusses a topic that I find very interesting, this being processed foods. Having learned about food and nutrition a little bit over the past...
I recently listened to Prajnaketu, author of Cyberloka: A Buddhist Guide to Digital Life, talk about some of the ideas presented in his book. This inspired me to write a few words about my recent d...