BoC #ParkRun time once again #Runningpunks although it appears I hit the Start button twice. Definitely ran for more than 1s (about 1,500 seconds apparently). The excellent Moron Police - Defenders Of The Small Yard providing motivational tunes this morning 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. The knee saga continues unfortunately 😔 Saturday’s ParkRun seems to have flared up a twinge again. Deliberately short and slow run this morning to test it a bit. Grey and rainy weather greatly enhanced by the excellent Pull Like A Dog from The Scratch 🤘

BoC ParkRun time again #RunningPunks. First one for two months and boy, that was tough! Shocking how out of practice I am. Nearly two minutes behind where I was at back in early March. Tunes were good though, and the irony of Walk being the finish line song was not lost on me 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Absurdly chilly for a mid-May morning, but at least there wasn’t a massive hailstorm like yesterday. The knee is definitely improving. Nearly hit 10k time target today. Tunes from the excellent Baby Chaos - demo versions of what became Skulls Skulls Skulls Show Me The Glory 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Keeping up with the Sunday Social has given me a bit of a boost so I decided I should squeeze in an easy Tuesday morning run to see how the knee is holding up. Seems good so far. Gorgeous out there, accompanied by surprisingly positive vibes from Frank Turner - Be More Kind 🤘

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Morning #RunningPunks. Back on the Dengie 100 Sunday Social for the first time since February I think. Pleased to have some company to test the knee against and provide some entertaining and distracting chat. Brief set of tunes on my way down to meet up from The Scratch - Pull Like A Dog 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. The treat of daily blue skies appears to have retreated for now, but it’s lovely enough out there. Still frustrated that recovery takes so long, but I am out there and making progress. Tunes from Pantera - Cowboys From Hell 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Slow and easy, trying not to stress the knee recovery too much. Frustrated with it now to be honest. 😒 Excellent tunes from The Scratch - Pull Like A Dog. Not a great choice for slow running really, but absolutely excellent otherwise 🤘

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Morning #RunningPunks. After three weeks on #BrokenPunks recuperation bench, I decided it was time to give the knee a bit of a run. A little achy, not as much power, slightly out of balance, but damn it felt fabulous to be back out there. Mighty tunes from the latest Enter Shikari 🤘

On the #RunningPunks #BrokenPunks bench today. Turns out yesterday’s ParkRun pothole was bad enough to leave me limping for the rest of the day, so I have spent the day alternating between ice, compression and ibuprofen. Helped along by The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones and plenty of biscuits 🤘

BoC #ParkRun time again, and a far from triumphant return as I hit a pothole badly about halfway round, wrenching my knee quite a lot. No permanent damage hopefully but I probably need to stay off it for a while 😔 Random shuffle on the ParkRun playlist threw out some absolute corkers! 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Took a chance on the eastward river path to see if it had stopped being swampy. Definitely paid off with reasonably solid underfoot and a gorgeous welcome change of scenery. Tunes from The Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts 🤘

Sunday Social with the Dengie 100 crowd. The clue should be in the name - this is just a nice social run on a Sunday morning… until you get a load of post-middle-aged men together in running shoes and everyone starts getting their competitive head on… 🤦‍♂️ Oh well, we had fun! 🤘

Beautiful morning for a #ParkRun #RunningPunks 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Back to the old faithful training loop to see how the system is holding up. It’s apparently doing fine. Tunes from Enter Shikari - The Mindsweeper, with a little of A Flash Flood Of Colour for the final stretch 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Slow and easy run today just checking for any damage after the weekend fun. No urgent warning lights flashing up on my internal dashboard, so that seems good. Some early Moron Police making me smile on the way around. 🤘

Evening #RunningPunks. Had a wonderful time today doing the Original 1908 London Marathon, which follows (as close as possible) the route from Windsor Castle to White City taken by the Olympic runners which set the standard of 26.2 miles. Bit longer now due to pesky motorways but otherwise lovely.

Evening #RunningPunks. 3 days to go, and just 3 miles on the taper plan today, so a lovely excuse for getting back to the D100 Wednesday Social which I haven’t done for months. Unsurprisingly, photos on the move in the dark don’t come out well, but The Wildhearts in the ears did wonders for pace 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks and what a morning it is out there. The sun wasn’t long risen, there was blossom on the trees, a refreshing chill still in the air, and I only had four miles scheduled on the taper plan. They were good ones, powered by the mighty Enter Shikari - The Mindsweeper 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Sunday Social with the D100 crowd (which largely consisted of me and my mate Rob today). Forgot to stop Strava at the start when we stood around chatting so mile 1 looks a bit odd, but otherwise just a lovely easy chatty pace chugging around the town.

Morning #RunningPunks. Another 5 miles easy on the taper plan again today, definitely going a bit easier this time as I am nursing a cold. Woo-hoo! Yet more 90s throwback rock from my recent secondhand shopping excursion, this time with Little Angels - Little Of The Past 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Gorgeous out there today. Blossom on the trees and properly T-shirt weather. Just five miles on the plan for today (I love the taper zone - as many carbs as I can yet increasingly fewer miles 😁). Teenage tunes from Bruce Dickinson - Tattooed Millionaire 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. BoC #ParkRun and boy was that splashy today! We just need some hedges to go with the watery ditches and we’ll have our very own Grand National. Random shuffle on the playlist put out some belters to splash around to this morning 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Been offline for a lot of the week while visiting daughter no. 1 in Glasgow, so here’s two runs on one post (you lucky people!) Currently loving being in the taper zone ahead of the marathon, with 8 miles easy a couple of times on the plan. Tunes from Pink Floyd - Pulse 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. No pretty pictures of the route today. This was just a determined slog of a training run in brutal conditions with a vicious windchill and rain bordering on sleet. Thank goodness for the Dengie 100 crew who joined me for lap 3, plus the glorious Chris Catalyst for laps 1 & 2🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Finally made it back to #ParkRun - first one for six weeks. Unsurprisingly it was a bit of a mudbath, but good to catch up with a lot of the regulars. Random shuffle on the playlist served me well. 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Keeping to a regular schedule has a bit tricky for the last couple of weeks but managed to get out for a pretty standard Thursday morning jaunt. What was that golden disc in the sky though…? 🤔 Tunes from the glorious Gary Moore - Wild Frontier 🤘

Afternoon #RunningPunks. There’s a lot to be said for rage-fuelled running now and then, especially when it’s coupled with excellent tunes that channel that negativity into positive power. A double-bill of the awesome Moron Police just pulled the trick for me, delivering some new PBs 🤘

Afternoon #RunningPunks. Decided to wait until the rain at least slowed down, hence a lunchtime run. But lo, what was that shiny ball in the sky making sparkles on the water…? 😏 Lovely to hear the tales and tunes from Chris Catalyst on the Stories edition of Life Is Often Brilliant. 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Had a heavy case of “couldn’t be arsed” when it came to yesterday’s run but felt a lot more motivated this morning. Definitely struggling at the moment with “the great grey beast February” (thank you Clive Barker). Late 80s classic rock from Van Halen helped though 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Well, it wasn’t pretty (although the first 14 were reasonably pacy) but it was all about getting miles in the legs. Lots of mud and slipping around mile 12 really hit the hips, so the final quarter was really tough but that’s the 20 barrier officially breached! 5 weeks to go 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Not quite as bleak and rainy as Tuesday, but still damp and splashy fun time today. Powered along by the mighty Therapy? Pleasure Death which turned 34 😳 the other day apparently, then some Enter Shikari - A Flash Flood Of Colour to bring me home.

Morning #RunningPunks. Possibly a bit more endured than enjoyed the run today. Hammering rain, gusting wind, and everything is just one giant puddle over here, but that does at least mean some splashy fun. Excellent tunes from Baby Chaos - Skulls Demos and Blackbirds EP 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. I forgot to press Start on Strava around 7.15 and it was only when I stopped to meet the Dengie 100 crowd for Sunday Social at 8.30 that I realised. That means that there’s about 9 miles missing prior to the social trail run 🤦‍♂️ Solo music miles from the fantastic Moron Police 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Managed to squeeze in a fairly standard loop around the town in between rain showers. The brooks and puddles are getting bigger 😳 Tunes today from Marillion’s Holidays In Eden 🤘

Afternoon #RunningPunks. This week’s training wanted 4 miles at tempo pace - I wasn’t entirely sure what that meant so I just went for 4 miles at a manageably fast pace 🤷‍♂️ I don’t often do lunch break runs, but it’s been a crappy workday so far and I’m worth it! 😉🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Couldn’t quite face the D100 Sunday Social yesterday after the London Bridges event from Saturday, but couldn’t wait around until tomorrow for another leg-stretcher. Bluesy goodness from Gary Moore accompanying the gorgeous burning skies this morning 🤘

Afternoon #RunningPunks. Getting some more miles in the legs with the Public Sector Challenge London Bridges event. 25km, 16 bridge crossings from Hammersmith along to Tower Bridge. Most colleagues were walking it, but four of us chose to run it. Fabulous fun but crowded 🤘

Afternoon #RunningPunks. Getting some more miles in the legs with the Public Sector Challenge London Bridges event. 25km, 16 bridge crossings from Hammersmith along to Tower Bridge. Most colleagues were walking it, but four of us chose to run it. Fabulous fun but crowded 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. A bit grey and dull out there today, and the weather’s much the same. Continuing with the random shuffle of Ginger Wildheart’s G.A.S.S. releases 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. The best thing about doing a longer tougher run at the weekend is that it made this feel easy and comfortable today. Assisted by tunes from a random shuffle of Ginger Wildheart’s G.A.S.S. releases 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Sunday social 10k with the Dengie 100 Runners, followed by 10 miles alone but for the buoyant tunes of Moron Police. The ten mile loop was a little challenging with muddy riverpaths and then, at mile 11 of the total 16, the biggest hill for miles. 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. Warmer but damper today. I think I prefer the icy cold. Nice and easy today with one of my all-time favourite albums, Del Amitri’s Twisted 🤘

Morning #RunningPunks. -5C and ice crystals in my beard even at the end of the run suggests that this cold snap really isn’t messing about. But it makes everything look so gorgeous out there that it’s hard to care. Bouncy rock fun from Massive Wagons - Triggered powering me along. 🤘

Morning #Runningpunks. Some early miles with the Dengie 100 Runners, then a few more in service to the god of marathon training. Icy winds and wide open fields are not a nice combination but at least the skies are wide and blue. Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds Of The Western World for company on my way. 🤘

Happy New Year #RunningPunks. First run of 2026 for me, back at BoC ParkRun. Not too shabby considering my diet has been 90% leftovers and/or chocolate for the last week. The random shuffle decided to drop Dry County in there again which was fun 🤘

Final run of the year #RunningPunks and nailed my personal challenge I set myself at the start of the year, to run at least 2025km in 2025. (There were a few additional km I had to run to get home). Tunes from the amazing Moron Police yet again - easily my favourite album of the year 🤘