Blog2020 ≫ Everything was conspiring against this morning's run

It was like that book by Stephen King about JFK 1 when he's trying to get somewhere and destiny is trying to stop him with little thing after little thing, his car won't start, a tree comes down in front of him etc. It was EXACTLY like that, so what did it mean? Why was I being stopped? What was going to happen when I did get out on the run? I was a bit wary actually, until I remembered I don't believe in such supernatural forces, so pushed on through.

First could not find my head torch, and it's dark out there. Did the head torch KNOW I was looking at a replacement yesterday and leave home? Or have I just put it down somewhere? Next my hat with the led light in that Clare got me last year was not charged, so cut out instantly. Then my proper torch 2 was also not fully charged, so that started cutting out on my run to Sandgate and back 3, and it was dark. I nearly bumped into other runners once, as they were running side by side and one had a light and one didn't.

Dry-vegan-runuary day ten though! And not a bad pace, particularly the final sprint. Have not even thought about the drinking really. Hmm, but I'm thinking about it now or I would not have mentioned it. Will go back to the Inn Doors after work today for a couple and hope they still have the alcohol free beers in.

I did a little bit of coding the other night, to be able to replace text in these posts with links but to make sure it doesn't try to put a link into something that is already a link, and it's working nicely.

  1. Removed old amzn.to/2R4leND link here.
  2. Removed old amzn.to/2NssGl1 link here.
  3. Removed old strava.com/activities/2997793285 link here.

runuary: Running probably 5k every day for the month of January.

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Paul Clarkeʼs weblog - I live in Hythe, Kent. Wed + dad to two, I am a full-stack web developr, and I do mostly js / Node, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubbing, running, eating, home-automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, family tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and time travel.