The 10 things I hate about my gym: Most men do not use the lockers – they leave their stuff on the benches in the teeny-weeny changing room. I sometimes wish someone would walk in and steal all their money and phones. Steal their trousers as well. There are only …
Read More »Janathon 2013 – Day 21: I Don’t Like Mondays
The younger member of the household was praying for his school to be closed for the day but sadly, for him anyway, he was back to school and I was in the office as normal. The paths were not in the best state but I checked the status …
Read More »Janathon 2013 – Day 16: Road to Nowhere
Tough being back back in the office today. My legs are aching from the non-stop running so I made this an easy day by running 2km on the gym treadmill. Time was against me as well due to a full diary so I only just managed to make it to …
Read More »Juneathon 2012 – Day 11: Gym’ll Fix It
‘Winter is Coming’ is the motto of House Stark but I am thinking of ammending it to ‘Winter is Always Here’ as the motto for House Running Dan. Once again the rain is falling down on a grey London and this week I am back in the office following my …
Read More »Weekly Stats
Finally free of illness & injury so was able to get a treadmill session in during my lunch break during the week and then a 5k around the local park to try out my new Nike Pegasus that I bought for the upcoming Woodland Woogle as it’s bound to be …
Read More »Janathon Over… Now What?
Janathon is over… now what? Easy really, now I continue running. I finally took the time to read through some of the emails that the good folks at the Brighton Marathon have been bombarding me with and suddenly realised that I needed to book a park & ride space. During …
Read More »Janathon 2012 – Day 31
Janathon 2012 – Day 31: final run and a reflection on Janathon. The 31st day of my pledge to exercise and blog everyday in January as part of the Janathon collective and it’s been a tough interesting enjoyable challenging experience. Sticking to the exercise part was not that difficult, although …
Read More »Janathon 2012 – Day 26
Janathon 2012 – Day 26: grinding the miles out. Now that I am feeling pretty much back to normal I decided to head to the gym again today even though it would normally be a rest day. I had missed so many scheduled running days up to this point that …
Read More »Janathon 2012 – Day 25
Janathon 2012 – Day 25: back to work and back to running. I am pretty much recovered from my cold, which thankfully I have not passed onto anyone at home, so I was back in the office today. I had worked from home rather than calling in sick over recent …
Read More »Janathon 2012 – Day 18
I made it to the gym today following my travel nightmare yesterday and spent an hour and a bit on the treadmill. I had forgotten that one of the treadmills was out of action due to a fault but luckily there was a machine free even though I was there …
Read More »Janathon 2012 – Day 12
Janathon 2012 – Day 12: work, hamster run, and early sleep again. The working week is thankfully drawing to a close and I am finally getting used to the daily commute again. I went to university in Aberystwyth back in the day and being in a relatively small town with …
Read More »Janathon 2012 – Day 11
Janathon 2012 – Day 11: work, run, and sleep. A fairly innocuous day of Janathoning as the household continues to battle the jet lag monster. Once again The Son wakes everyone up early but I was mostly awake anyway and I am just better at staying in bed even if …
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