Aug 26
I have run a few barefoot miles this week and I have not done that for a few years. When I ran barefoot every day, I ran very early in the morning and met all the same people. Most got used to me, we had a chat and they understood what I was doing. I …
Aug 16
My first big ageing runner tweak. I now have two hearing aids. After reading about the connection between untreated hearing loss in mid-life and dementia in later life, I went for a hearing test and found that I have a moderate loss in both ears. I am sitting here with a new hearing aid in …
Aug 09
Tuesday 1st August 2023 I was up early again and ready to write. Woke up thinking about Ageing Runner. It is a website about learning as much as anything. It is about the nature of the world and how we make sense of it. It is Reading, writing, running. – Learning through the process and …
Aug 02
These diary entries are part of the CARP project. They capture my accounts of things that seem noteworthy as they come up. They are part of a data collection process which will revised at a later date to pick up on recurring themes. They are not a narrative and completely scattergun. They are part of …
Jul 26
This is my diary as an ageing runner over the last week or so. It aims to capture the things that I notice as I live alongside my hypothesis for a while. I am collecting data in the form of accounts without going into interpretation at this point. That may come later as part of …
Jul 22
These are the first three entries in the Ageing Runner journal. I am journalling for a purpose. The aim is capture the things that I notice about my running and create data which can be analysed later. I try to capture accounts of the things I notice without sliding into explanation at this point. Where …
