All posts in October 2017

This week, 11:43 — my legs were heavy, but I can tell that I am walking a smaller proportion of the mile than I had been, week on week.

Yesterday morning’s run/walk was good; I came in at 11:50. My legs felt mostly all right, but I couldn’t breathe as well as I’d have liked. Still, progress, and I’m not complaining about that.

This morning was a neat 12:00 mile. Since I started at thirteen minutes a few weeks ago, I figure that by next October I’ll be running three-minute miles. My wind is improving, but is still a big obstacle to really running. This morning, my knees were stiff, a bit sore, and generally reluctant to help…

I didn’t start the timer on my phone correctly, so I don’t know how long I took this morning, but I’ll call it 12:15 ’cos I’m moderately sure I did better than last week. As I went, I pondered how my various components were handling this experience. I was looking for a body part to…

One of the cliches of twentieth-century theological reading of Scripture was that radical critics ween’t critical enough. I’ve seen that most often as an interrogation of the critics’ historical discernment — ‘You can’t say that miracles are impossible, because miracles are reported even today. You need to criticise your own modernist presumption that miracles can’t…

Same mile, same run/walk, same 12:35 as last week. My thigh muscles felt weaker than last week, and my legs were leaden. I actually felt like running on Wednesday morning, but gave it a miss; this morning I was less motivated, and the run was hard.