A running blog with a philosophical twist, exploring parallels between long distance running and life.
My recent summer holiday in Wales coincided with me reading an inspiring book called ‘Running Free’ by Richard Askwith and this happy coincidence has reinforced in me a set of running/life values to go back to basics and back to nature in my running. In his book, the author describes his own process of escaping …
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As I was running along the coast recently, I couldn’t believe how hard going it was. I was running into the wind and couldn’t seem to make much headway at all. The wind was screeching in my ears, battering my face and making any forward motion seem like climbing Mount Everest. “I’m not anywhere near …
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