As I type at 9.00 on a Sunday morning it is precisely a year today since I was standing around in George Square in Glasgow, trying to keep warm and waiting to run the half marathon element of The Great Scottish Run. You’ll find the story of that here.
Today the world looks different, not simply [...]
I composed the following blog entry shortly before Mr. Brown’s political coup du theatre. I’ll post it anyway and ponder Brown some more for tomorrow.
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Gary Younge, commenting in this morning’s Guardian about the widely reported demands of the financial markets regarding the outcome of the election, wrote as follows:
The very sector we bailed [...]
I went for a walk down the hill earlier on and noticed what I took to be a fresh dog turd on the footpath. I was just about to mutter curses about inconsiderate dog owners when the supposed turd jumped towards me. Courtesy of the camera on my mobile, here is the culprit.
It is as [...]
Previously on Ian’s Health…. I worked hard last year to get fit for a marathon on my 50th but a month before, after finishing the Great Scottish Run Half Marathon, discovered I had dangerously high blood pressure. Intense exercise was put on hold for a while and medication was prescribed which brought me back to [...]
I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I had gone back into the gym to begin the process of regaining lost fitness. I’m pleased -and a little surprised- to report that on Monday just past I succesfully ran a 5K, albeit on a treadmill, and today ran for a comfortable 40 minutes. At this [...]
After the blood pressure scare of late last year and the indolence of Christmas and New Year, I went into the gym today to start the fight back towards the fitness I had when I ran the half marathon back in September. I had no intention of maxing out, just gently reintroducing my muscles to [...]
I was at the doctor yesterday morning for an update on the BP. It is pretty much where it was two weeks ago and so I have had the dosage of Lisinopril taken up a notch (prescription rules for this state start low and work up to the effective dosage). However I was [...]
Unusually for me, I had some music with me while running on Sunday. I used a 36 minute selection I put together a couple of years ago for a 5k run and put it on repeat. The tracks were selected either for their rhythm or to sing along to or both. They were:
Madison [...]
A good – but odd – day.
We left Edinburgh early to get to Glasgow in good time for the Great Scottish Run – I was running the half marathon. This was to be my first ‘proper’ half marathon although I actually ran a further distance in training last weekend.
The great news is that I felt [...]
I had a good run today – just over a half marathon distance. My ankles were getting sore towards the end but I have passed a psychological barrier in the sense that I know now that I can run the distance. It was also the first time that I have run for more than two [...]
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