Category: Health

Back on the bike

I’ve started riding my bike again, and I love it. Except for London’s crazy cycle lanes, that is.

Twice around the Common

Today I went for a run on Clapham Common. I ran on the Common last weekend, but I hadn’t run outside since I sprained my ankle. I have been spending a fair bit of time on the treadmill at the gym, though, and I’ve been using the heart rate monitor David gave me [...]

Miles to Go Before He Eats

As you’ve probably ready, Joel Stein has recently written an article in Time questioning the logic of the local food movement. He has added a fourth meal to the industrial, organic and hunted/gathered meals that Michael Pollan describes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The meal is prepared from ingredients that were shipped from more [...]

Slight Twinge of Regret

Well for the first time since I started getting up early, I’m feeling a bit of regret. You see, I’m about to go bed and Tapeheads is on the BBC in thirty minutes. I need my sleep but I want my Swanky Modes! Oh well, I guess any ordinary man would have [...]

6+4: One more week of apple snacks

Due to the great Halloween disaster of 2007, I’m going to spend another week focusing on not eating junk food. Between Halloween and a ginormous tub of Celebrations, it didn’t go so well this week. I knew this one was going to be hard.