ByJulia Chi
The alarm woke me at 6.18am, which never used to feel very early in my ‘past life’, but in my current life – my life with Anadi – it certainly does, as bedtime is never really before midnight… I had actually set it for 6am, but at 4.18am had woken for a wee, and changed…
ByJulia Chi
I had a lovely surprise this morning… Whilst I was getting ready to run, Anadi said ‘Can I come..?’ We haven’t run together since around his birthday on October 7th, due to all manner of circumstances seen and unforeseen. I have become so accustomed to running alone, and Anadi is very busy with his work,…
ByJulia Chi
I’ve landed in Gozo! It feels as if I have been beamed here… We rose early to a bright crisp November morning, and once I was on the plane I slept most of the way – including once we had got into the car at Malt! I ‘came too’ on the ferry; skudding clouds and…
ByJulia Chi
Today Anadi and I spent all day in a bar in London… I loved it so much. But first I ran ten miles on the treadmill in the gym. I loved that too… In the last five days I have run on an Alpujarra road, while the sun rose over the mountains; along the Spanish…
ByJulia Chi
I am on the train to Gatwick from Eastbourne… I have had the richest most fabulous 24 hours… I love and treasure relationship and it has been my lifelong joy – to connect, to engage and to love. I have less time now than when I lived in England to physically enjoy the connections that…
ByJulia Chi
As I drove away from the mountains, just as in the poem I wrote about yesterday, the last three weeks disappeared in the ‘wake’ of my new pathways unfolding…. I drove away and the preceding weeks were gone… And the place, the people… It is as if they no longer exist because I am gone….
ByJulia Chi
I am just off to meet Maggie, who with Jack, her husband, are my support team to run barefoot across Spain… Maggie and I are going to make a vlog over coffee – always good – I am looking forward to hearing what she has to say about the adventure we have embarked on… It…
ByJulia Chi
Today Maricarmen read me a poem because it was the last day of my intensive… The three weeks have felt to be a very special and transformative time… Maricarmen and I have spoken a lot about not making plans, about allowing things to emerge; about letting the path unfold in each step… This has been…
ByJulia Chi
I found myself locked in the hotel, when I went to leave for my run this morning! The stairs I usually take led today to a locked side gate, and the door to the reception of the hotel was also locked – and the lifts weren’t working either. I went back up to my room,…
ByJulia Chi
I rose, and looked from my balcony at the now familiar, always awe inspiring stunning orange sky as daylight arrived an hour earlier… I made my way downstairs, stepped out of the front door and turned right, to run along the coast. When I reached the beach, I decided to keep going and climbed higher…
ByJulia Chi
This week Julia talks about winning the Dublin Marathon in 1985 – and she also talks about running as a meditation on the move – and the metaphor of the running journey and the life journey from birth until we leave our body… Julia Chi Taylor is a lifelong runner. She has been running races…
ByJulia Chi
In the week after the London Marathon, Julia talks about her first marathon in 1982 and some of her ideas about training to run 26.2 miles… Julia Chi Taylor is a lifelong runner. She has been running races for 50 years since the age of 12. She ran at international level from the late 70’s…