It’s been a very long time since I last published anything on this blog – September 7th, 2024, to be precise. Life has become incredibly busy and, sadly, this blog has taken a backseat, along with my other blogs. About three years…

Parkrun this morning saw my recent run of good form continue, as I managed to shave another 4 seconds off my time. While going around the course, I experienced some discomfort on the bottom of my foot—I think it’s my plantar fascia….

I was woken up by my daughter FaceTiming me. She never fails to make me laugh as she snatches the phone from her mum and scrambles across the bed, as if she’s making a break for freedom. I then spend the next…

So, today marks the beginning of the end of the journey I have been working towards for the majority of 2023. Every training session has been leading up to this, and every race has been a tune-up for this moment. I arrived…

So, today I had my first taste of how I will react to being a father to a girl. My current girlfriend (she loves it when I refer to her as that) took our daughter for her first soft play visit. Every…

Today we had to take Olivia to an appointment at Great Ormond Street Hospital to speak to a plastic surgeon regarding her operation to remove her unusual birthmark. Unusual as in the doctors were concerned at how big and dark it was….