Just over 200-1 for the perfect football season. PNE promoted and 3 relegations that would make me laugh. Us going up is the longest odds on this. Could be worth a £2 lucky 15!

What’s your favourite song about the rain? (Mine’s not totally about the rain but there we go @thmptypg.bsky.social ) always sing this in runs when it’s peeing down youtu.be/fIfDlR0pt0A?...

Get to know your mutuals. List ten random things you like. Wearing a hoodie (hood up at all times) Carbs The High Performance Podcast Post-Punk (esp 🇮🇪) Risotto Having plans for retirement Being a dad to an adult Coffee Game shows Running

Very upsetting to see Hazelwood and Cummins both missing the first test.

Share a GIF that reminds you of your teenage years

Claudia can do one

youtube.com/shorts/Cl0m4... go on Thierry lad

This time of year I always start to look for my #AlbumsoftheYear Have a list of about 40 at the moment having done some whittling down. What might I have missed?

Few days off work this week. Look what I stumbled across as well. Hopefully nobody expects any conversation this week.

The Cribs - love them dearly. Seen them live more times than I can recall, but For All My Sisters (Pink Snow aside) just didn’t hit.

You’d think by my age, I’d have stopped getting a touch annoyed when I don’t get asked for ID. Massively ramped up when I actually don’t have ID with me, apart from my face.

More hills… climbed more in 2 miles than you do in a standard marathon (York, Manchester, London all around 150m)

Well done Burnley

Hill reps… building these in from here on in. Great for leg strength, which is desperately needed!

aye go on then. Tough one next June - going to be a fundraiser I think.

Of course I now realised that I haven’t given this sufficient thought and am working out how I can get Desperate Journalist, Pixies, FDC, The Beths and Cabbage into the 8! Me, an over thinker? Who knew?

Define your music taste in eight artists The Smiths Joy Division Ride The Sundays Sprints Martial Arts The Cribs Nine Black Alps

Off to Manchester for the day today so only had time for a mini run this morning. Doing a bit of speed work as I’m considering a January HM. Nice progression run spoiled by a hill on the 3rd km. In fairness it is a hilly little route!

Post your first record… I was a weird 11 year old.

In a rare update on the ‘where could I have run to this year so far?’ Skeets, Ive just arrived at Lake Bled. Possibly the most amazing place I’ve ever been, so am well happy with that! Now for a lovely (big) slice of Bled Cake!

When does a hobby become a passion? And when does a passion become an obsession?

Due to staff shortages, wizards are developing bad backs.

Reform UK in the dock ⚖ 9th October Andy Osborn. 14th October Neil Stevens, Tony Stevens, and Rob Sheridan. 15th October Sarah White. 21st November Nathan Gill. 16th December Mandy Clare. 22nd May 2026 Daniel Taylor. Under investigation: Joseph Boam. Lee Duffy. George Cottrell. #ReformInTheDock

When Farage told the people of Clacton that he would spend his time working I imagine they thought it would be for them and not for 12 companies.

My word I’d forgotten how good The Longcut were. That debut album is staggering

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

Madman makes a play for leadership by trying to ‘outgammon’ Reform. I genuinely believe (and hope) the Tories will fight back and hurt Reform’s hopes of success at GE. Not like this though. Tory voters aren’t definitively racist.

New profile picture taken yesterday at 12:20pm - so 3hrs 16mins into the Chester Marathon (about 20/21 miles in I estimate) The ones that were taken later in the race show a different, much older and haggard person!

Damned with faint praise by a brutal 20 year old. ‘Not ridiculously slow’. Gee thanks pal. I would say ‘you do one then’ but his legs are a least a foot longer than mine. He’d do it in 10,000 fewer paces than me!

Chester Marathon. Loved it.

Race day. Early awake but sleep was ok. Coffee and a banana now. Chia Flapjack in an hour and then maybe one more coffee and go time. Will I ever not get nervous before an event?

Disappointed to read that Blackpoo have tonight parted company with Steve Bruce. Thought he was doing a wonderful job to be honest.

Tracking for Sunday if anyone cares! ale.niftyentries.com/Results/2025...

That should be enough…

Time for a new book!

After 20 weeks, around 950km, 3 pairs of running shoes, and countless early mornings, tomorrow will be Taper Run 7 - a gentle plod ahead of the big day on Sunday. Anyone else doing Chester?

A nuanced argument against the populist right. A statement of patriotism. Above all, it sounded as if it came from the heart. The work of a thoroughly decent man making the case for decency. It’s just not entirely clear if decency is what the British public demands of its politicians these days.

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

Forgotten how good this was until junior mentioned it. Iceblink Luck is just a wonderful song, as are all of these. And that voice

Saddens me to read the comments by the one who invented Quidditch. Making her sound very bitter and likely to simply polarise opinions once more. My take was she also came across as spiteful and self-righteous. And that’s without wading into the transphobia.

www.instagram.com/reel/DPHZGID... good to have a decent keeper

9 days to go! Can’t wait. Running with no pressure as I know I’m not in good enough shape to set a PB, so we go… 10k, and again, and again, and again… then try to speed up and glide over the line!

Got tickets thank goodness. 40th Anniversary of Pixies couldn’t be missed. On another note it’s coming up for 40 years since my first ever gig at Preston Guild Hall. Funnily enough my memory is hazy but they definitely played Cities in Dust.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without preparation. 1. The joy of running 2. Cricket - specifically why Test cricket reigns supreme 3. Music - why the bands I like are great and anyone who disagrees is an oaf

Always Polyphonic Spree. For me this album is their most consistent

Bloody Hell. Pixies in York? 👀

Making a playlist of great cover versions. Need to be available on Apple Music… any ideas?

Lovely day for a trip to York. Final year. Next move will be into, full, his own place in Leeds. Time flies…

Any fitness gurus on here? Done 4 different VO2 Max tests this morning (trying to work out optimal pace/pulse for Chester Marathon). 4 very different results, ranging from 48-62. Anyone know which ‘desktop’ test is most accurate?