About me
Retired after 35 years in technology, now dabbling with tech and running as much as possible
I ran for the first time since leaving school when I started Couch to 5k during lockdown in 2020. I did my first 5k in June 2020 in a time of 30:14, getting slower all the time, and with an average heart rate of 171, peaking at 182! Many people have done C25K, but I wondered what people do afterwards? What is there for them Beyond 5k? I used to be a keen cyclist, but over the past the last 5 years I have become an obsessed runner. What happened to me that drove this conversion? There have been key turning points and experiences – it is these that I plan to write about in “Beyond5k”.
This site provides me with a platform to write about two of my main interests – running and technology. At my age I suspect that many people would have been giving up running and taking up cycling to give their knees a rest, so I think
the change is unusual. My transformation from keen cyclist to obsessed runner got off to a slow start, but there
have been key turning points on the way. My blogs describe my running experiences after Couch to 5k – “Beyond 5k”.
The technical topics will be more varied and will typically describe my tech projects. As a career “techie” who focused on the configuration and implementation of Enterprise Applications and Solution Architecture I had very little
exposure to front end design, so a by-product of this site is that one day I might learn how to size and align images and controls properly!
Running
The story of my conversion from cyclist to runner
Tech
Notes on my tech projects
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