Well, where do I begin?

Blogs – never really succeeded at them! Partly because of my own mental health, I am the archetypal manic personality type – starting things and then running out of steam as my cycles, well… cycle.

There’s also the reasoning that I don’t know if I have much to say that deserves to be preserved! I’m a pretty private soul, and my running is my way of expressing myself. I played guitar and in bands for 30 years before I stopped – mainly because I felt I’d done what I’d wanted to do with that. The thrill of bunging a load of expensive equipment in a car, driving miles to be paid peanuts to play to small crowds wore off as I got older as the gilt edges of the lifestyle wore off to reveal the base metal underneath.

So these days I run. Even that I struggle with occasionally, but typically summer (with the sun) and winter (with snow) are the times I do my most exploration. So I document my runs on my Garmin with photos to serve as a pictorial record of my exploits – at 55, I know that this will not last forever and perhaps these records will serve to be the things I look back on in future years…. “I may not be able to do that now, but I did then – and here is the proof”

So I’ll explore the idea of recording some particular runs here, with photos, explanations and thoughts.