A new year and a fresh start is required.
I started this blog several years ago with the intention of writing regularly about a number of subjects of interest to me and hopefully other like-minded people.
As with many well-intentioned hobbies, life has a way of sucking the spare time we all crave into a massive black hole, never to be seen again.
We’ve all had a lot on our proverbial plate recently, so it is not a surprise. Although the ‘C’ word can’t be fully blamed for the demise of the content on this page ( I last posted something in 2017).
I’ve recently felt that with all that is going on in the world (I will try to make this a COVID free zone, I think we are bombarded with so much information – we all thought Brexit was bad enough, then COVID came along and Brexit-ed the hell out of the news) I would write weekly to find an outlet for my brain dump, as I don’t know about you, but I’ve been collecting some pretty hefty data recently and the hard drive is creaking with all the additional information entering my various orifices.
For anyone that has read my blog before you’ll know I have a keen interest in writing and running. Unfortunately running has also been hard to maintain during 2020 because of a complete lack of motivation. At the beginning of the year I began training for a the Brighton Marathon in April but March came around and the world changed overnight and the race was postponed. The reasons behind the postponement aside, it was a blessing as I was struggling to maintain a training schedule that would allow me to achieve my goal. Plus, I wasn’t enjoying running. I felt that I had to run but didn’t feel the need to run.
I had just completed a 20 mile road race, felt excruciatingly tired and couldn’t envisage me hauling my backside through that distance, let alone 26 miles ever again so even before the decision was taken out of my hands, I was not in the right frame of mind to compete.
This malaise continued for the rest of the year until recently. Somehow I managed to run 550 miles last year, most of that took place pre-March. With the prospect of racing being off the agenda for the foreseeable future I felt that the only way to motivate myself is to set some goals and writing about it seems to help. It also gets me in the habit of writing again so in the spirit of the time of year, I’ve hit the January sales and bagged myself a 2 for 1.
So, this post is just a flavour of things to come in 2021.