I’m still about 10-15kg shy of where I need to be to race comfortably. And it seems, too, that my weight at the moment (91-odd kilos) precludes me from running without injury. That’s what you get for seven years of neglect…
My legs have always been a problem. I’m designed for lifting — squats and the like — not running, […]
A few weeks back, I got a minor tear in my left calf. Of all causes, it was from tripping down a gutter to avoid a skater! You’d think I had better balance.
When these things come early in a process of re-whatever (I’m re-ing a lot of things), it’s easy to fall back into bad […]
The July issue of Wired (one of my favorite magazines) bears the tag line Living by Numbers. A significant proportion of the magazine is devoted to mental and physical hacks you can use to track your wellbeing bases on quantitative analysis.
There are a bunch of great articles in there on the measurable benefits, especially for […]
A couple of weeks ago, my friend, Gavin Heaton, tagged me to write a ManWeek post. He wanted me, and the others tagged, to discuss what we thought it meant to be a man, and why. I didn’t respond then, because I had too many things bouncing around in my head to say anything coherent. […]