Mark @mark@beech.org.uk

Hopefully I'll be marathon fit again by April 18th next year.

I probably could have completed it, but running is too important to my mental heath at the moment to risk further injury.

I've finally got around to cancelling my place at this year's Boston (UK) marathon.

25 mile round trip, on 6 bus, to visit an empty friend's flat - just to make sure they had switched a burner off before they went on holiday

One thing I have learnt this week is that I sem run quicker while listening to the Saw Doctors than I do while listening to Alestorm.

I just ran my fastest 5k since October.

25'10, I'm quite pleased with that.

#running #notparkrun

https://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=17825401

I'm riding on a bus for the first time since the Ides of March.

So far I've shared the bus with about ten other passengers, all but one of whom seemed to know that a mask should cover your nose as well as your mouth.

I woke up at 0230 and could not get back to sleep, by 0530 I gave up and went out for a run instead.

I covered almost 9 miles in 90 minutes, in my longest post-injury run. I might try to make it 10 miles in 100 minutes next week.

While out running I saw four herons, a herd of deer, and one cyclist.

https://www.fetcheveryone.com/t-17814815

My ex and I were going to remain friends, but that was too painful for her new partner, so ghosting it is?

Garmin says I have the maturity of someone five years my senior😂

I knew I could not improve on yesterday's 5k time, so today I went for distance - just about #running a sub-hour 10k.

I just ran my fastest 5k since my injury.

Recording a (not)parkrun time of 25'50, that is only one second slower than my fastest real parkrun of 2020.

#notparkrun #parkrun

I will be taking modules #E117 Introduction to sport and fitness and #U101 Design thinking: creativity for the 21st century.

I've just enrolled at the #openuniversity #ou for a Certificate of Higher Education in Design and Innovation #T37 starting in October.

I'm in a pub, for the first time since the Ides of March. OK not quite inside, but nice to enjoy a pint of real ale and a chat with a friend.

I should be at Pelsall Carnival today, but like everything else in 2020 it is cancelled due to Covid-19.

Instead I'm sat in front of my computer patiently waiting for #osm #SotM2020.

A few month back, on another Saturday morning, I was running to a parkrun, down some twisty country roads.

I turned one bend to find an entire herd of deer blocking half the road.

I did not run past them, for I have a fear of spooking any animal bigger than me, and that goes double for a flock of them.

Later that same day someone completed a marathon in under two hours, and I was given my hashing name.

I went for a a three mile run this morning, and spotted a deer in one of the fields that sometimes contains horses. It stopped its grazing to gaze at me as I ran slowly by.

I also saw a heron, but that is not so unusual.

I had quite forgotten where that image came from, but another post reminded me that I made it with a web #graphviz service called #sketchviz and it lives in a github gist.

https://sketchviz.com/@markbeech/6133b80c9f1f58f3273a01c66bae9782/90fd8e77c10f710c419691b05320905c0e880352

This diagram shows all the New Year #parkrun doubles I was able to complete, back when that were a thing.