My name’s Pete and The Unforgiving Minute is a space for me to write about running. I’m not a great runner and this site isn’t here to pretend I am. I’ve often jotted race reports in my journal and thought it might be nice to record them online. It’s a place to talk about running from the perspective of an everyday person who struggles to fit in enough training and is never quite as quick as they hope.
I’ve just recently moved to the edge of the Peak District, where I get the joy of running on trails as often as I want. After years of being a city dweller, I now only dip into road running for occasional races and finally call the trails my home.
There’s a line towards the end of the poem If- by Rudyard Kipling that says:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it…
For me that sums up nicely the runner’s high and the euphoria that accompanies crossing the finish line of a race, whether you finished in first place (I assume, having never done it!) or last. The feeling that you wrung everything you had to give out of your body and beat the challenge infront of you is magical.
Hopefully you’ll enjoy the blog but more than that, if you’re not already a runner, maybe it’ll inspire you to lace up and find a hill.
I’m a member of Heaton Harriers and Northumberland Fell Runners.
More Information
The header font is Montserrat and the body font is Lora.
The logo was designed by Pete Jobes and Duncan Kidd.
Contact me
If you’d like to contact me you can do so by email to pete01@gmail.com.