The sun pours down like honey over West Berkshire this morning, 24 hours ahead of the Reading Half. This last week has been low-key for running, and intentionally so. Some people like to squeeze out extra runs out in the week before a race, as though they fear that an unscheduled rest day will drain them of fitness, and of everything they ever knew about running.… READ MORE.... …
Month: March 2005
This evening I sat in a hedge, ruefully recalling that in Ye Greate Wise Booke of Runninge Lore, Rule Number 427 states: "Tie your shoes, and tie ’em tight." I’d memorised the first half of the sentence, but that last bit had slipped away somewhere. After last week’s episode, in which our man had turned up at the sports centre in time to see his running group vanish in a hissing cloud of rain spray, tonight I resolved to leave home a bit earlier.… READ MORE.... …