Woke to good weather, ran my new route in 13:51, Morning Office, hot breakfast, followed up a fair amount of correspondence, wrote a bit more of my essay on James, read and prepared a digital versi… | Continue reading
I slept a bit late this morning but it mattered not, because it’s raining cats and dogs and I decline to run in this weather. Morning Office, fruit breakfast, some backed-up correspondence, some re… | Continue reading
Up promptly, conditions favourable, morning run came in at 13:34. I remember when that would be an adequate tie for one mile, so that’s an improvement. Morning Office, fruit breakfast, some corresp… | Continue reading
We slept deeply, and I rose well-rested and ready to resume a responsible schedule of morning running. I didn’t time this morning, but made the mile-point-four course at a steady pace with no parti… | Continue reading
We disembarked promptly in the morning, stopped at Costa for a coffee and a tea before making our way to Victoria, thence to the Oxford Tube, and homeward around noontime. All the transport for the… | Continue reading
Margaret packed our goods up first thing in the morning, and then cleaned and sorted, we made our way to Madhavi’s home, where we spent the middle of the day reading or chatting or taking Gabriel f… | Continue reading
A less ambitious day today: we strolled to Anstruther for breakfast and took in the wharves, then took the bus in to St Andrews. We had intended to explore the (ruined) cathedral again, but we were… | Continue reading
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Slept well, got a leisurely start, and headed into Anstruther to find a hearty breakfast. None of the sort we had in mind was on offer, though — mostly only coffee and pastry — so we grabbed a pass… | Continue reading
Quick word: From London to Edinburgh on the Caledonian Sleeper, breakfast at Loudon’s where I had the best French Press pot of coffee I’ve tasted in ages (and Margaret had vegan vanilla pancakes), … | Continue reading
Alea, as they say, jacta est; I rose early, put on my trainers, and ran my new mile+. It’s not my favourite* thing to do, but there we are. I paused for a moment about halfway, not a full-on stop, … | Continue reading
I realised this morning, as I was rolling out of bed and heading downstairs to don my trainers, that it really only makes sense for me to stick with the mile-and-a-half route going forward (unless … | Continue reading
Heavy grey skies, total humidity from a rain that had only just let up, but cooler temps and good, limber legs, to the result of a 9:35 time. Again, I can’t account for the variability of timings, … | Continue reading
Heavy grey skies, total humidity from a rain that had only just let up, but cooler temps and good, limber legs, to the result of a 9:35 time. Again, I can’t account for the variability of timings, … | Continue reading
The thunder and lightning, and primarily the rain yesterday afternoon, had helped drive the temperature down a wee bit, but it was still warm and sticky-humid for this morning’s run, and my ankles … | Continue reading
Up early in the tropical morning air, and decided early on to take an untimed, short-step, slow run for the day, allowing for a stop along the way to take a photo for Margaret: Morning Office, hot … | Continue reading
Did I mention that it’s perishingly humid on top of the heat wave, especially first thing in the morning? 9:27 mile. Morning Office, breakfast at Rick’s, brushing up my Newman (on the day the CoE r… | Continue reading
Deep grey skies, light breezes, and oppressive humidity this morning, and although I didn’t feel any particular aches or wobbles, my mile came in at 9:31 and I think I couldn’t have done it in a mi… | Continue reading
A gross of COVID days, not yet quite a half year, and governments (NZ and others nobly excepted) still faff about like blind squirrels looking for nuts. This morning, deep grey and near-100% humid,… | Continue reading
Happy St Dominic’s Day! A normal morning, if hot and humid, and my limber limbs carried me to a mile time of 9:35. Morning Office, pancakes for breakfast!, odds and ends and reading, a grocery trip… | Continue reading
My feet have been bearing a lot for the past four days, so I thought I’d give my heels (at least) a wee break by taking a run with shorter steps, making my ankles do more work and shifting impact f… | Continue reading
warm, humid air and wobbly knees (that resent having done so much walking in the past several days) put a damper on my pace for the morning mile; I came in at 9:45. After some consultation and deli… | Continue reading
I reverted to my usual mile this morning, to beneficial effect (on my feet and time, at least); the overcast day brought humidity almost to the point of dampness, and a headwind on the Iffley Road … | Continue reading
My time of 16:21 would be shockingly poor if not for the facts that (a) it marks my extension of my running course to a mile and a half, and (b) I wasn’t pushing for time, but just running slowly a… | Continue reading
Every fibre in my legs — bum, thighs, knees, calves, ankles — protested this morning after my slightly-longer run, itself after two days off, ao the otherwise fine conditions resulted only in a 9:5… | Continue reading
What happened to days 135 and 136? Friday, Margaret and I got up at the crack of dawn — before dawn cracked, really — and made our way to Arundel, where Margaret waited to be picked up by our frien… | Continue reading
A beautiful morning for a run, apart from pollen and somewhat more humidity than I’d prefer — but clear, temperate, and I was limber and strong. I saw many more people on my run than I used to duri… | Continue reading
I decided early on that I didn’t want to try a full-on morning run; my knees have been wobbling a bit, and my joints were creaky during warm-up. My thought had been to take a long, slow run, in pre… | Continue reading
A good weather day for a run — I felt all right, temperature was cool but not chilly, moderate breezes but not so as to hinder progress. I made my mile in 9:31. Morning Office, fruit breakfast, Mar… | Continue reading
The morning was rainy, so I began the day expecting not to run — but I noticed a pause in the precipitation, so I put on my trainers and ventured out. Alas, as soon as I hit my stride during warm-u… | Continue reading
Morning mile 9:33, Morning Office, hot breakfast, Mass at St Mary Magdalene, good working ideas for my sermon, lovely check-ins from Pippa and Nate, and that was mostly the extent of the day. More … | Continue reading
I forgot to record anything in particular about today. My morning mile was 9:35; Morning Office, grocery trip, hot breakfast. I frittered the day away among light reading, Legends, and saving the w… | Continue reading
I mustn’t miss two days in a row, so I took my morning run in very humid air, 16°, medium pollen (but enough to keep eyes and sinuses streaming), and limber but heavy legs — all to the result of a … | Continue reading
This morning I actually did skip running. I got to bed late, I slept past my usually running time, and when I woke I was a bit headachey and stiff-jointed. It seemed to me that if I were ever going… | Continue reading
Did I decide to skip my morning run? No, I did not! On the whole, a lovely day, though something is blooming that has my eyes and nose streaming. 13°, ‘medium’ pollen count (but it all depends on w… | Continue reading
A near-perfect morning for running — might have been warmer (9°), but clear and endurable humidity, though high pollen — and I limbered up satisfactorily, finishing my mile in 9:21. Morning Office,… | Continue reading
I’m in a phase of being tempted, day on day, to skip my morning run. I haven’t missed a day for weeks; I exercise from a sense of obligation rather than any enjoyment (though I don’t actually visce… | Continue reading
Rainy morning, 13°, so I decided not to try for a mile, but to go out and run till I didn’t want to get any wetter. Once I got outside and was warming up, though, the rain abated and I wound … | Continue reading
Another grey morning, 15°, high pollen, high humidity, stiff and achey limbs, and my mile came in at 9:37. Morning Office, grocery trip, hot breakfast. Finished Nazianzen, worked on the sermon, and… | Continue reading
I woke up stiff — my back threatened to develop spasms at a couple of points — so although the conditions for running were satisfactory, I decided not to time the run and simply to go slow and stea… | Continue reading
Another grey, cool morning, 15° and high humidity, calm, and high pollen — but my pace just didn’t come together, and I ran to a 9:46 mile. Once again, the variation in my times puzzles me. M… | Continue reading
This morning the conditions were fine: cloudy, 13°, medium pollen, high but not too high humidity. I wasn’t in good form, though, and the time was 9:25. The rest of the day was taken up with corres… | Continue reading
This morning was humid, 14°, and I had sluggish legs; as so often in humid weather, it felt as though I were running through high-density air. My mile time was 9:51. After the Morning Office and so… | Continue reading
The weather was fine for this morning’s run, but I felt… well, I was stiff and slept late, my heart wasn’t in it, and I was tempted to not run at all. Instead I chose to take a deliberately slow, u… | Continue reading
A beautiful morning for a run, if a bit chilly (6°) and with so abundant a proliferation of pollen that my eyes and nose were streaming all the way. It took a while to limber up, but good enough by… | Continue reading
I have for a very long time held a special place in my heart for Louis Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews, a valuable six-colume compilation of the truly mind-bogglingly vast array of sources that expa… | Continue reading