2019 - will one thread be enough for the whole year?

[marathondan]

So I'm into the formal training programme, heading for the New Forest marathon in September. As always I'm following a bare-bones plan with injury avoidance being the number 1 goal. Work continues to batter me emotionally and physically, so thus far I've failed even to achieve the modest goal of three runs a week. However, experience has shown that there's no point sweating about this -- just keep on trucking, and take the opportunities as they arise.

These are very early days, still in single-digit distances, so there's not really all that much to report. The runs are workaday - around the old field, sometimes out into the Thicket, or least excitingly, half mile laps around a Windsor park while the youth football teams set up their goalposts for the morning's fixtures.

The all-import question then is: what aural stimulation has been keeping me going on these less-than-thrilling forays? Here are the latest audio hits to keep me plodding:

Welcome to Night Vale - I've finally caught up with all 150 or so episodes of the surreal podcast, so am limited to one new edition per fortnight. The Blood Space War features heavily in the community news these days. Hundreds of citizens have left the town to fight an unknown enemy, often returning decades later, younger than when they left.

No Such Thing as a Fish - trivia banter, written and presented by the researchers of QI. I expected them to be somewhat up themselves, but actually it's excellent. Basically QI without the egos and scripted jokes.

Beef and Dairy Network - superb spoofery, highly recommended. Brought to you by GrazeX, the number one low cost nutritional grass replacement sand.

And -- just occasionally -- trying to improve my mind with BBC Inside Science and the Physics World podcast.

Managed to avoid Marathontalk so far. No doubt I will succumb when the long runs get long.