Running the Parks

Hi. My name is Gavin, and I'm a writer, a runner and a procrastinator. When you put it like that, I pretty much had to start a running blog, didn't I? I write thrillers under the pseudonym Mason Cross, which you can check out on my  website  if you so desire. But this blog is nothing to do with books or writing, at least not directly. In an effort to combat middle-age spread, I started running in 2018, using the excellent BBC  Couch to 5k app . I picked Jo Whiley as my coach. She seems to dislike exercise as much as I do, and is therefore perfect. The app does pretty much what it promises - builds you up with incremental short runs, until you're running nonstop for 30 minutes. To my surprise, I managed to complete the program, and I've kept it up (barring injury) ever since. Something I worked out early on is I'm not a treadmill guy. It's physically easier than running outside, but much harder psychologically, because it's so goddamn monoto...