Category: Running
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Life / wellness coaching
I talked to a wellness life coach recently and while I expected her to have all the answers, it turns out she was armed with the right questions and let me find all the answers for myself. Linda Formichelli had an offer for some practice sessions and I contacted her about two things in my […]
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Some pictures from the Bristol 10km – 15 May 2011
A record number of people took part in this year’s 10km in Bristol and it was a wonderful turn out on quite a grey day. Thousands of runners headed off from just outside the Runner’s Village at Millennium Square, Park St and Anchor Rd in two waves separated by 15 minutes. I managed to capture […]
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Ram Dass, ‘this body is not who I am’
The following excerpt is taken from the book The Wise Heart by Jack Kornfield. I had already read about Ram Dass’s stroke on previous occasions but this sounded very suitable as a link up to my post on struggling with some limited immobility in 2010. Joelle, a forty-seven-year-old Buddhist practitioner, developed multiple sclerosis, which progressed […]
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Running Blog: Steve’s Kenya Training Diary
Bristol & West Athletics Club athlete Steve Mitchell will be pounding the dirt tracks of the Rift Valley in January after being invited to the High Performance Training Centre at Eldoret by Kenyan athletics legend Kip Keino. Read about his experiences on his blog. Mitchell’s new blog was mentioned on Bristol Running Resources by Mike […]
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Baby B: Carefree and Kicking Around
Ain’t thinking ’bout love today Lost in the sunlight Walking down memory lane I don’t think about running any more. I spend too long trying to waddle to work, find some comfort on the couch, sleep without pain, put socks on with some measure of grace, impossible. I dream about running instead. I wake from […]