Richard Wright

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Training Sri Lanka Style

Training Sri Lanka Style

I’m still in Sri Lanka, doing… well, not too much of anything. It’s brilliant. Sri Lankan jungle is cool. That’s..

July 10, 2012
Marathons Plural

Marathons Plural

The Delhi half marathon date has been announced – September 30th, and it doesn’t clash with anything else I’m doing...

June 21, 2012
Baby Steps and Marathons

Baby Steps and Marathons

I have grown bored with carefully nursing my foot back to strength, after breaking it in March, and started running again. Actually, that..

June 19, 2012
Getting Fitter

Getting Fitter

This pool is about thirty paces and a fifteen second lift ride away from where I’ve been living since late 2009. Until Thursday, I..

May 21, 2012
Time, and Stats, and Texas

Time, and Stats, and Texas

A couple of days ago, I went for my first run since January – just a tester to see if my left ankle* would last the brief mile I put..

March 31, 2011
The Walking Bruise

The Walking Bruise

You know how it is.  New year wouldn’t be new year without some doomed, pitiable attempt at self-improvement.  If it weren’t..

January 6, 2011
Halloween Enhancements

Halloween Enhancements

Makes me feel like a spambot. Halloween enhancements for her pleasure!  Make her shudder the Wright way! Seriously though, isn’t..

October 18, 2010
Comical Misadventures in Physical Unfitness

Comical Misadventures in Physical Unfitness

Last year, I embarked on both getting fit, and getting very unfit.  The fitness bit lasted until around about June, and was going quite..

February 4, 2010

Freedom

I can’t tell you how good it is to be running properly again, on roads and tracks, off bloody treadmills. Treadmills aren’t..

July 17, 2009

Psychotic Deer, Offroad Driving, Medical Emergencies….

My intentions were good. I had planned a five mile run, and had every intention of completing it. Within the first mile, about a..

June 14, 2009
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