ByJulia Chi
We are sitting in a cafe in Cyprus, our new office. We have Derek with us, Malcolm of Running Crazy has nick named him ‘The Pink Panther’ because he loves to wear pink… He has pink shorts and a pink watch and pink sun glasses. I asked him if he has always liked pink… He…
ByJulia Chi
Jamie is drawing, Anadi is on his computer and I am writing… Companionable silence; all of us looking forward to our anniversary feast… Today we ran across the island to Xlendi… We even intended a dip in the sea on arrival, but the swell was huge against the rocks, the waves crashing on the beach…
ByJulia Chi
Jane and I took photos of one another waving and waving… I was standing on the quay and she was on the ferry, sailing away from Gozo island… She’d like to come back she said, to this shiny little pearl of bright energy right in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea …. Back at the…
ByJulia Chi
Jane and I sat high up on the cliff top, the sea blue with white horses dancing on it below. We were on Gozo island… We sat cross legged opposite one another and chanted the seven main chakra energy centres in the body… After the echoes of the crown chakra sound had faded away, we…
ByJulia Chi
Anadi and I headed out of Eastbourne just after 5.30 yesterday afternoon… We were excited to be on our way to meet my nephew Jamie who had already arrived at Gatwick and checked into the Premier Inn… I texted him to let him know we on our way and then turned to Anadi ‘What an…
ByJulia Chi
A run round a rather rainy Richmond park was an absolute delight… It was also a running thoroughfare ! I was taken back to thirty five years ago, my first run around this beautiful place… No set pathway then, and we passed not one other runner… The deer were evident though, deer, muddy path ways…
ByJulia Chi
This morning Hassan made us coffee and tea, which were ready for us when we appeared at 7.30am… We had a last photo call with him pouring the tea in traditional style from a great height… We had said goodbye to Nadia and Lamina yesterday, but ten minutes before we left the doorbell rang and…
ByJulia Chi
As I finished my intervals today, and was jogging back to meet Jamal and Anadi on the dusty sunny parkland that I have become accustomed too, I passed two camels, they were ‘humping’, as Jamal described their union, in a very relaxed fashion… Their owner was standing a discreet distance away, and they seemed very…
ByJulia Chi
I am sitting in the sun on a roof terrace in Morocco high up in the Atlas Mountains… My shoulders are aching and my bottom muscles are stiff… The back of my nose is scratchy and my eyes feel quite heavy… This is the result of living and training in a land where the air…
ByJulia Chi
11,000 of us chose to meet on New Year’s Eve in Barcelona to go for a run together… Quite a thing, a huge group of people running around the streets of Barcelona as the sun set on 2015. As humans we appear to like meeting in groups to do things together… Queuing to do things,…
ByJulia Chi
It is Christmas Day, and I have just been out to the car park of the service station we are having a Christmas coffee in, to get my bag from the car… I walked up and down, in and around all the cars… The rain was falling and the car park not even that full……
ByJulia Chi
It is five days before Christmas and I am on a little plane flying through the darkness… The orange dawn is streaking across the sky… I am flying through the black into the light of another dawning day… One of the losses and gains as I make my way across the time span of this…