My name is Julia Chi…
I have been running all of my life – it feels I was born to run.
In the running step I experienced freedom and my true expression.
I came to see that I needed to ‘get out of the way of myself’ and let my energy flow through the running step; allow it to express itself in the dance and the motion of running.
I have lived from a belief that all that is required is that I know myself, and that I am true to myself, and seek to become the master of my body and my mind… That from this place I allow my true nature to shine and reflect in my creative endeavours and within my relationships.
An ongoing journey…!
I knew from when I was young that all I needed to do was to ‘run free’. To let the running take me where it wanted to. To stay in the step. To be in the moment and so to experience running as a meditation on the move.
I ran for England and GB for some years. My first international was in 1979, a three mile cross country race; and I continued to run at international level until 1993. Two of my best results were first place in the Dublin City Marathon in 1985 and 7th place woman, 3rd British woman in the 1986 London Marathon in a time of 2.36.31, which gained me selection for the Commonwealth Games.
ByJulia Chi
Chris Hobson is a marathon runner extraordinaire… In the last ten years she has completed 117 marathons on all seven continents in the world – with a plan to make it 120 by her 70th birthday this coming July 2023! In this podcast, Chris tells us about her transition at 60 years old from a…
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In this podcast, Anadi James Taylor explores the concept‘An overnight success takes about ten years’. Anadi is the founder of iSportsAnalysis, which is the leading software for online Sports Analysis worldwide. He shares with us his journey to this point, which began ten years ago…! You can listen to our previous podcast by clicking here. Podcast…
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In this podcast, you can hear the continued adventures of Katie Cole, who has just moved from Wales to Scotland to start her new role as an “Education and experience officer” for Trees for Life. Katie previously shared her journey of recovery from abuse as a child and a subsequent eating disorder. In this podcast,…
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Ed Rios is a runner, who shares with us here, his extraordinary story of triumph over adversity. He was hit by a car in the summer of 2020, sustaining serious injuries and was told that he would never run again, and would always walk with a limp.On May 1st 2022 Ed ran a marathon… Podcast link…
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I am sitting writing in a coffee shop… When we come to Winchmore Hill we take up residency in the Larder, but on Mondays it is closed, so I am sitting in another, surrounded by much deliciousness and chatter and plenty… Plenty of people and food and choices of smoothies, brownies, healthy meals and coffees……
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I love our ‘Larder’ London experiences, when we land in Winchmore Hill we take up residency in ‘The Larder’… Coffee shop life is the life for me, especially after 11 miles of running on a cold December morning! We turned up on Michael’s doorstep in the first week he opened, two and a half years…
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I love writing on the plane from Spain….In fact I love writing on any plane… I just liked the rhyme of the first line (another…! ‘I am a poet and do not know it!) We left a rather chilly but beautiful Almuñecar this morning; the sun was rising and the fishermen were casting their lines…
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Today is a very rainy day… But Spain needs rain and so when I said to Maricarmen and Pepe yesterday – as the first drops started to fall – that it was me – La Inglesa that had brought the rain; they were very happy… ‘Bring more…’ They said, ‘we need the rain…’ It fell…
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Last night I dreamt lots of vivid dreams… I really enjoyed it, it felt a very interesting night time journey indeed. I woke not remembering anything, other than that I had committed in my sleep to do more running, and therefore was henceforth not going to do anything much more than run. My meditation on…
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I am just about to go out to stretch on the top of the big rock… It lends itself to stretching, a sort of ‘place to go’ like setting off to the gym or a yoga class… I am going to the big rock to stretch. If I take the ‘to’ out of the sentence…
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I am sitting on the terrace in the afternoon sun; Jane and I are thinking that it will soon be time for coffee; our breakfast went on until lunchtime and then we went on a shopping spree just as the shops were closing for Spanish siesta…! But it meant we had a nice walk and…
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Athena Jane arrived over the blue footbridge from the airport and we whisked her away in our hire car all of us hungry for lunch… At 3.30pm we realised we better turn off the main road and look for somewhere to eat as bars and restaurants generally stop serving lunch at 4pm… At 3.55 we…
