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Socially Distanced, Social Run • Up early again for another dawn run this morning but this time I had the company of this little leg end! • Nice to have @chubs2ridgewaylife down my neck of the woods and to have something close to but two metres apart from normal for a few miles of running, coffee and chats. • This is going to be the running community for me for the next few months so need to get my diary full of more runs like these.

No Marathons, No Medals • So this is the first time since I started running properly that I’ve not run at least one marathon in April. Every April for four years I would stagger home, still wearing the sweat soaked clothes and hang my London Marathon medal on this staircase with the others. • This April I should have hung my Brighton Marathon medal and another marathon I was aiming to do while in India but not this year. 2020’s medal collection is going to be pretty sparse to put it lightly! • There will always be the next April, the next marathon, the next medal. So roll on those days and roll on those finish lines 💙

Dawn Half Marathon • The birds where I live do more of a dawn rave than a dawn chorus so I was wide awake at 4:30 this morning. • Instead of rolling over and scrolling insta like I normally do I headed out for a run to enjoy the cool morning air and the golden light of dawn. • I took no notice of pace or time, enjoying the views and taking wayyy too many photos of the beautiful light. • I ran down roads I’ve never been down and found villages and views I never knew existed. • I’ve not run a half marathon since way before lockdown and not run at dawn since the Dead Sea Marathon. I may have been awake since 4 but that run felt invigorating.

Old Normal • I took this photo while out doing some drone shots for the @runningchannel ‘s new video that was released today. The poem that narrates it, which I’ve quoted below, perfectly fits with how I was feeling that day, stood upon the same bit of road I cross on every run I’ve taken since the lockdown commenced. • I was stood wondering which way to go and longing for that old normal we all hold so dear; of Parkrun coffees, finish line hugs, sweat soaked medals and that raw rush of adrenaline that comes only from a start line. I crave that old normal, of a life and community, that feels so far out of my grasp right now. • “Along the same roads I go, passing the familiar smell of bread through the window of the house down the lane. The same letter box, the same route, the same pain in my hip as I this down on the pavement where the curb creeps up and down. • The days are getting lighter and longer, and my runs are getting later and slower. • Dreaming of something to run towards that isn’t my own house. Wanting to get back to what was normal, I pound the pavement, sleep and repeat.” - Sarah Hartley.

🎉 1,000th Post 🎉 • Can’t quite believe that I’ve posted one thousand of these tiny squares since February 2016. • Thank you to all the fantastic people who’ve followed/put up with me from either day one or today but most of all to those who have inspired and supported me on here. • My first post was my medal from the Hampton Court Half; the first race from my first full year of running having only started a few months before. Back then I had not many running friends to speak of and certainly no concept of a running community. • A lot has changed and these thousand tiny shouts into the void of social media mark these moments of change. Since the first post I’ve run all over the world; from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Dead Sea, walked across a country and completed Marathon des Sables making countless of bloody brilliant mates along the way, many of them thanks to Instagram. I mean back then I was still four months away from swiping right on my partner and starting the adventures we’d have together. • When I first started using this app I used it just to document what I was doing, I didn’t know that it would gift such mind boggling friendships, opportunities and inspiration. • If all of this is from a thousand posts I’m excited to see where the next thousand leads...

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