FAT BLOKE BLOGS – UP WITH THE LARK, DOWN WITH THE TITANIC AND ON TOUR WITH THE BBC
I’m a terrible parkrunner. One a year on average over the last eleven years. I am however, quite interested in parkrun tourism. Not the getting up at stupid o’clock to drive somewhere local-ish, kind, more your flying somewhere for a weekend jolly up on the proviso you haul your sorry, and potentially hung over, carcass out of bed on Saturday morning to do the local parkrun.
The spirit of parkrun – past, present and future…
Only after becoming injured and unable to run for 3 months did I gain a glimpse of what truly lies at the heart of parkrun. It is so much more than obsessing over how many regional parkruns you have visited, compiling pie charts of your running statistics, shaving precious seconds off your best times or the urge to beat that smug runner who always manages to pip you at the finish line. It’s all about the magic that goes on behind the scenes to make parkrun the global phenomenon that it has become today.
FAT BLOKE BLOGS – GREAT MYSTERIES OF CROSS COUNTRY RUNNING No.1
It’s here. Or rather back again. Cross country season. I got round the first one, at Nostell Priory, which was a lovely setting even if the morning was perishing cold, a reminder that it can, [...]
The Little Voice Inside Your Head has a lot to answer for…
Being an injured runner has given me A LOT of time to think. I have been thinking about how ignoring my body exacerbated the problem and how the little voice inside our heads can both help and hinder us as runners. That little voice is what motivates us and potentially what holds us back.
FAT BLOKE BLOGS – RANDOM (EVEN MORE RANDOM THAN USUAL) MUSINGS…
First up, Bob Foulkes would probably like me to mention the club’s Presentation Night which happens next year on 9th February at Horsforth Golf Club.
FAT BLOKE BLOGS – GO GET LOST!
The run we did with the ABG the other night was one of those ‘make your own route up’ deals. Every runner gets a number and when your number is reached (like a deli counter) [...]
Written in Blue & White… A Running Blog
I have been a runner for over a decade. In all those years, I have never been unable to run due to injury. I have taken breaks to have my children and I have had periods where I lost my mojo and just didn’t feel like it. This is the first time I have been told not to run.
FAT BLOKE BLOGS – REMEMBERING MARC
I’m going to be serious for once for this issue. As most of you will know we lost Marc Springer recently to the cruel disease that is Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Most members of Horsforth [...]
FAT BLOKE BLOGS – GETTING MY MOJO WORKING
So, injured again. This time a possible teeny-tiny lateral tear in the knee cartilage. A visit to the doctor suggests that it could be one of those ‘daft’ injuries caused by something innocuous like stepping [...]
FAT BLOKE BLOGS – RUNNING TO MOROCCO AND OTHER FAR FLUNG PLACES…..
I’m back from a couple of weeks sweltering in Rome and the Umbrian hills, where, and I kid you not, I was up early and out running a couple of times during the week. The [...]