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Don't bother looking at your productivity until you're sure you're working on the right stuff. No-one gets anywhere by doing trivia well.

The one, single reason why I still have an account on X. Can only be days now until the Barkley Marathons...

Although my Substack is mostly about getting more out of life and work, I've also written a dozen articles about running. Training tips and recommendations, and general musings on running distance and trails.

You can find them all here:
thecathode.substack.com/t/running

On New Year’s Day north Norway had one of the highest levels of solar activity in recent years. Unfortunately, it was also covered in thick fog. So instead of watching the aurora, we went sledging in the dark and -16. Sometimes you just need to change your plans and go with plan B...

Oh Duo, you don't know the half of it.

Morning.

What's in your 2024 BlueSky BookStack? Heres mine - not as many books read as I'd like, it's been a busy one. And not too many new books in my pile either. My pick of the year is Richard Askwith's Feet In The Clouds, the classic exploration of fell-running.

London this evening. The sky has been fabulous this week as winter arrives.

Happy Monday everyone. Pig agrees it's too early.

This is my excellent guinea pig, Ginger. I say excellent, she is pathologically greedy and still hasn't worked out where the toilet is, but she does squeak loudly every time anyone opens the fridge, like a fluffy fridge alarm.