It's my birthday this weekend and Spring has arrived, so it seems like the right time to come out of the Instagram hibernation I've been in for a little while. ☀️✨
A lot has changed in my life over recent months and you'll see mostly photos from Lisbon now that I'm based here most of the time.
If you'd like to check in about how I'm doing, or would like to catch up generally, DM me!
Thanks to @sheelin___ for the photo!
Lisbon's purple Jacaranda trees are in full bloom at the moment!
Here's a new image in the series I've now decided to call #imaginacity, where I've worked with Midjourney to create/find/conjure an image that's based on mixing machine dreams and my own impressions of the city. #aiart #aiartcommunity
A note to my past self. Startup life is intense right now for sure, but one day you’ll find yourself working on your laptop in the sun in Miami. 🌴🤯
(With thanks to my very understanding wife and kids back at home in not so sunny UK!)
🎉 First ultramarathon complete! 🤯
The Green Man Ultra is a 45 mile / 72km route around Bristol along footpaths, through fields and over hills along the route of the Community Forest Path. The route is pretty hilly and climbs 3100 feet / 945 metres along the way.
It looked like a great challenge to go for this Summer now that we live not far away so I signed up!
Very pleased to have managed it in 11 hours and 11 minutes. It was hard and it’s taken me until now to recover haha
I started faster than I thought I’d need to go and aimed to be quicker than the 10 hour pacer so that if my legs stopped working at any point, I could fall back to 11 and still come in under the 12 hour cut-off. And guess what happened about two thirds in when we hit the big hills!
Thanks so much for two very helpful Martins. My uncle who put me up for the night, and a chef from Radstock who stuck with me when all my electronics had failed and got us over the line. 💪
That was hard!
I started running two years ago with Couch to 5k as someone who wasn’t really doing any exercise. It’s really surprised me that it’s possible to go from that to being able to do a challenge like this in such a short time.
Here’s to the next challenge, right? 😆
#couchto5k #ultrarunning #greenmanultra #fromerunning #ukrunning #ukrunners
It’s (virtual) London marathon week! Choices, choices...
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A year ago, @emilyquinton suggested I should try the Couch to 5k app and here I am about to run considerably further. It’s the London marathon “40th race” where folks who had a place can run their own route with a time/distance tracking app that the organisers provide.
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I’ve still not made up my mind about a couple of things though. First - the route. For the last week I’ve been pretty poorly with a cough/cold (luckily not Covid) so it might be sensible to stay near home for it. But also I’d love to head up to the river or to Hyde Park which has become my regular running spot. Hmm...
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Less serious, but equally needs resolving, I’ve got into a bit of a habit of buying colourful caps recently. Not sure where that’s come from but I reckon a nice bright one is in order for the big day. But which one?
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But seriously, thanks for all your encouragement along the way, folks. Here’s to sticking with hard problems and following through on the challenges we set ourselves, however big or small.
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On Sunday I’m actually going to do this thing. 🙀
#londonmarathon #marathontraining
Metric marathon complete for my #twopointsixchallenge - 26.2km instead of miles.
Today would have been the big day, but no worries. It was lovely out and I ran up to the Thames.
We’ve been talking to the kids about adaptability and resilience - I think we all need both in spades at the moment!
So that ends me talking about the London Marathon prep, at least for now. I don’t think that in October it’ll be running for the public, so I’m assuming it’s off and perhaps I’ll get to run in April. If it happens, then that’s a bonus.
Now to think about where I go from here. Open to suggestions!
#londonmarathon2020 #locallandmarkschallenge
