• How Running Taught Me to Get Things Done

    How Running Taught Me to Get Things Done

    I wasn’t good at getting things done until running taught me where I was going wrong. I started running in my late twenties. Within a year I’d signed up for a marathon. But my early enthusiasm didn’t last, and for the next fourteen years I stopped and started more times than I can count. When…

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  • What Makes a Running Habit Stick?

    What Makes a Running Habit Stick?

    I spent 15 years trying to work out what makes a running habit stick. Each time I stopped being a little more frustrating than the time before. I was doing so many things wrong. In fact, I was doing very little right. Why my running habit didn’t stick The most overquoted concept in Atomic Habits…

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  • Getting Back to Running after a Break

    Getting Back to Running after a Break

    I was a stop-start runner for 15 years and the hardest part was always starting. I had hundreds of reasons for stopping. That was easy. But, getting back to running after a break was the hardest thing to do. Even now, after over 5 years of daily running, I still find post-injury running the hardest.…

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