Resolution runners
The Thames towpath along which I run is an attractive and in the week at least, relatively secluded route to pound along. This changes in early January though, when all the New Year's resolution runners turn up, red-faced and chronically short of wind in their brand new shoes. Exercise should be democratic. But it isn't, as the variety of body types and running techniques spectacularly demonstrates.
Oscar Wilde said a resolution is a cheque drawn on a bank where you have no account (I think in the Picture of Dorian Gray). That's a deliberately cynical definition but probably ultimately true for the majority. Running, to some of us, is really addictive. But I still think most of those new pairs of shoes on the towpath will ultimately see very little wear.
Research published last week shows that running boosts the memory, making it the ideal exercise for a fiction writer, regardless of whether what you write is autobiographically based or not. I've only written once autobiographically and would never do it again. You get hung up on getting the detail accurate and in a novel, who's to know or care?
Oscar Wilde said a resolution is a cheque drawn on a bank where you have no account (I think in the Picture of Dorian Gray). That's a deliberately cynical definition but probably ultimately true for the majority. Running, to some of us, is really addictive. But I still think most of those new pairs of shoes on the towpath will ultimately see very little wear.
Research published last week shows that running boosts the memory, making it the ideal exercise for a fiction writer, regardless of whether what you write is autobiographically based or not. I've only written once autobiographically and would never do it again. You get hung up on getting the detail accurate and in a novel, who's to know or care?
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