notes
printed from blueskywriting
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Three days before my first 10K in years, I caught a cold. The day before, I nearly phoned in sick from work, then thought better of bragging about a race I’d skipped the Friday before it. I ran it anyway, nearly gave up on a hill nobody warned me about, and finished in 1:06:05, faster than my own phone thought I’d gone.
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Two nil, Kavanagh twice, and a league table I intend to look at every single day this week.
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Oldham open the EFL season live on the telly, and for now everything is still possible.
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Couch to 5K is finished, two months after I started it, and the Bellahouston 10K is a week on Saturday. Which leaves one taper week, one long run that matters, and a plan for running further than I ever have. Nine minutes running, one minute walking, repeated until the finish. Here is the whole thing written down.
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Stephanie talked me into signing up for the Bellahouston Park 10K, on the 22nd of August, right as I finish Couch to 5K. Her reasoning: I won’t run it well, but that’s exactly why it’s useful. A number now, however rough, is something to measure everything else against by the time I stand on the Paisley 10K start line next summer.
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I have spent three years arguing that automation taking work away from us is a reason to want it rather than a reason to fear it. I still think that. But almost every objection worth answering comes from the left, and working through them one at a time has landed me somewhere more specific than enthusiasm: the technology is not the question, ownership and permission are. Including the part…
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I wasn’t there to race anyone. I was just curious whether the training was actually going anywhere. Turns out it is.
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A throwaway line in Pulp Fiction about finding your food waiting for you when you get back from the bathroom. On why noticing small good things is a skill rather than a mood, and why it is not the same thing as being told to count your blessings.
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Health and safety reps have had legal standing since 1977. Equality reps get theirs this October. Green reps have nothing, and a net zero target with no plan behind it is just a press release.