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My pace picked up by a half minute this morning. While I often observ e that it’s hard to predict whether I’m running more rapidly than usual (or less), this morning it felt very clear to me that my run was different from yesterday’s. Coffee, fruit,...

Clear morning, and it hasn’t rained since sometime last night, so the circumstances for my run were pretty favourable. Still, I’m stuck at my current post-ankle plateau, more than a minute slower than I’d been running before the injury. Ah, well — I...

I can’t really explain why I thought it was. The Diocese sent ’round an email reminding us about safeguarding and the importance of DBS checks, but there was nothing in there about Safeguarding Sunday.
On the other hand, it doesn’t matter that much; the mistaken presupposition that it was Safeguarding Sunday provided a jumping-off point, not by any means the essence of the sermon (which I include below). The readings were about the environment, so...

I did dodge any of today’s predicted rainfall this morning, for a pace that was a bit faster than recent, but not a patch on my fair-weather, regular-exercise, pre-injury pace. No matter; the point of the exercise lies in doing it, not in speed (or for...