The Ordinary Runner

• Couch to 5k – an acceptable route into running?

  While I'm not a new runner, my latest return to running has been guided by a method more commonly associated to newer Ordinary Runners. Has it worked for me? Read on to find out.

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• GTPS – greater trochanteric pain syndrome

  GTPS is a pain in the arse. That's been my experience over the past two years. But what is it, how does it happen and what's the cure?

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• Not Goals – a reflection on 2023

  Early 2023, I posted a post about not posting a lot in 2022.

  The reason I didn’t post a lot in 2022 was, mostly, because I didn’t run a lot in 2022. What I did, was learn about intention, motivation and not setting unachievable goals.

  With those lessons in mind, I chose not to set myself any goals for 2023. Instead, I went with Not Goals.

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• Not Goals

  As I huffed up the hill towards Cissbury Ring, I thought, "this is great."

  Running without any pressure to hit certain targets is genuinely liberating. It's why I've ditched my previous obsession with having clear running goals in favour of the much less clear "Not Goals."

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• A reflection on 2022

  If it feels like a long time since I last flexed my Ordinary Runner muscles, that’s because it is. In the year since my last post, I've been trying to understand what it means to be not a runner. If, that is, I am not a runner.

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• Review of 2021

  It’s a strange time, the bit between Christmas and Normal. In place of work, we float in a dazed and lazy haze. With nothing to [...]

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• Running Tracks – a reminiscence

  Parental advisory, this blog contains swearing. I’ve recently read Rob Deering’s Running Tracks and was reminded of a time when music and running played in [...]

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• Project 20 – parkrun PB – small stones

  “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” So says Confucius. It doesn’t matter how big the task, it’s possible to [...]

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• Project 20

  On Saturday the 18th of May 2019 I achieved my parkrun PB. For me, 20:06 is a great time, yet I was disappointed. As arbitrary [...]

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• Running is bad for you

  Some would say A friend of mine, we’ll call her Gemma, will tell you, unequivocally, that running is bad for you. And, in her experience, [...]

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