A year in which I became a husband and a father. A year in which I worked as a Private Secretary to a Government Minister, and wrote a national pandemic preparedness strategy. A year in which I ran 5 marathons and several half-marathons having never run one before in my entire life. A year in [...]
Such a lot has happened that I do not post about here. Aside from all the developments with our gorgeous daughter – who is now 16 weeks old – I have run 5 marathons in 8 months, written the UK Pandemic Influenza Strategy, and am helping out with work in NZ around the Christchurch earthquake. [...]
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The BBC Human Planet series is really quite humbling. I missed the first half of the cinematic ‘Jungles’ episode this week, but this clip has just been brought to my attention by the Huffington Post. Amazing that this still exists in the 21st century. And as the gentlemen says in the clip – the tribe’s [...]
What a whirlwind it has been. In my arms is sleeping my almost-5-week-old daughter Liv. She had a difficult night and is quite windy at the moment. So Kate, her mother, is getting some valuable sleep while Liv also catches some zzzzs. Other than when she is expressing discomfort about her internal state, Liv is [...]
Our baby is due to be born today, or was due on Dec 26th, according to how you date these things. Still no sign though. Personally, I don’t think the baby will be with us until the New Year. I reckon, from a birthday point of view, that’s a little better as you’re less likely [...]
It is scary how much the smooth running of my life has become dependent on my Mac. In the week that it hasn’t been working, I have been using my Dell Mini 9 and HTC Desire, but fretting all the while, a) if I would be able to resurrect my Mac from the death loop [...]
Age: 40 v 41
Weight: 81kg v 76.8kg
Height: 183cm v 183cm
Systolic bp: 122 v 125
Diastolic bp: 74 v 73
Heart rate: 63 v 60
Body mass index (BMI): 24 v 22.3
Body fat percentage: 23 v 19
I’ve been taking it easy since the Berlin Marathon, but am now starting to step things back up again in preparation for the London Marathon. I have run slow-ish half-marathon distance training runs for the last four consecutive weekends, as well as throwing in the odd shorter run at a faster pace. I’ve continued with [...]
After 7 months as a Private Secretary in the Minister of State for Health’s Office, I have finished up my role there in preparation to make room in my life for the arrival of our baby towards the end of this month. I feel a little sad to be leaving, as the people are awesome [...]
After completing Berlin, I’ve been waiting a few days to choose my next running goal. As it happens, I entered the London Marathon ballot a few months ago. I’ve never applied before (as I’ve only been running about a year), and I hear there is only a 1 in 6 chance of being successful, but [...]
I received my kindle just before leaving for my trip to Berlin to run in the marathon there. I bought the wifi and 3G enabled version, because I travel a lot, and I though the built-in basic browser would be very handy to check in on email etc on the move, as well as using [...]
This was it. My target event for the last 6 months. I trained hard, tapered well – didn’t overtrain when I had a cold 3 weeks out. I had Vo2max assessments to design my training regime and measure my progression precisely. I got to Berlin in one piece, with my running kit packed in my [...]
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I’ve been active doing some work over the past few days, having been quoted in a NZ Herald article here on helping children after the event, and a Radio NZ National radio interview on Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan too. I also made a post on Nigel Latta’s [...]
Here is a message I just sent out to those who attending the Foundations of Psychosocial Support workshops I ran in NZ for the Ministry of Health last year:
Dear all,
I am sitting here in London listening to Radio NZ and watching the reports coming in from Twitter about the quake just a few [...]
I’m sure it will work with a Desire running 2.1 too, but just a quick note to say SyncTunes works to copy over playlists,. smart playlists and podcasts – albeit in a relatively simple fashion. I’m not sure if it is still readily available, but the old copy of this little free app works a [...]
Amazon have announced their new Kindle for $139 and ny looks like a must have little hackable gadget to me. It is released on August 27 and although they will be selling it in the UK I am tempted to picking up in LA as I will be there that weekend. Looks like brilliant value [...]
My iPhone battery has been flagging for a while, and I started noticing the little cracks in the ceramic case that afflicts the white cased 16GB iPhone 3G. It is a known defect and acknowledged as such by Apple. Indeed, they replaced the iPhone once for me in NZ. But unfortunately, my current model is out-of-warranty [...]
It has been just over a year since I returned to London, and a bit longer than that since I took a break from living in NZ. A lot has happened. I’ve traveled – on my own: to New York for a training course at Fordham University – and with Kate to Paris, Calais, Stockholm, Amsterdam (x2), New [...]
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