Writing It All Out

I did it - the Berlin Marathon! It took me 5 hours 45 minutes, at a leisurely pace, including stopping for toilets, free massage and loads of free refreshments. I ran with two other English people, one my mate Kat and another woman called Anne who we met in the toilet queue before the race started. Running the marathon was honestly one of the most fun I'd had in ages. A few days before, Kat and I went to the expo at Tempelhoff Airport, and there I met a couple, who joined me at the out

Flash-lit Fiction: Brighton Digital Festival 2011

Published on 2011-08-27 07:05:00

I've been looking forward to doing a night with Tara Gould (Short Fuse/Story Studio) for some time. Tim and I met her in 2009, and later that year, she started helping me host on Writers Hub for Reverb. Those were fun days. Radio Reverb's a great station, but doing a one-hour monthly show that's not music-based takes a lot of time and energy to coordinate and plan. I can't remember how we got the idea of the slam, but I'd been floating this idea to various writing people and we seized

Training for Berlin Marathon

Published on 2011-07-23 13:19:00

So, quite a few people have probably heard that I'm training to run my first marathon. My first is the Berlin Marathon, deemed the flattest course of all marathons, and with it being in my favorite month of the year, September, I was taken with the idea of a new challenge, running through the city's beautiful parks and downtown.Tomorrow will be the end of week 4 of my training. My optimism and excitement about doing the training and then actually completing the marathon has wavered wildly. From

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