My dire performance over the past few months have caused me more than once to ponder renaming my blog to ... something else. Stumbleguy will stay - there's always the Stourbridge Stumble next year - but "Run like the Wind, Bullseye!" just isn't right.
I might have explained it's origin before, and if not, you may know it already; however if you don't, it's a quote from Toy Story 2 which came to me during the 15 seconds or so I gave myself to think as I filled in the box when creating this blog.
Casting around for ideas, I keep coming back to Thomas' "Diary of a Rubbish Marathon Runner" and thinking "blimey, well how rubbish am I then". Really rubbish.
On the plus side, however, good name or bad, I know it was you lot that got me out of bed this morning, kicked me out of the house and dragged me onto my bike again. I wouldn't have been back doing my prescribed stretches and 6 more tyre miles this morning if you hadn't done that, so thanks.
And it was frickin' hard! My few rides in the Somme over the last 2 weeks have been relatively flat, so my uppey-downey course back home was hard work - but I've got some added weight now and loads of Brie and croissant to burn.
So, suggestions of a name of theme are welcome. I was thinking of something pretty self explanatory like "It'd be nice to be able to run for 30 minutes" or "how not to start running".
Looking at my Google running diary, I note that it's (only) nearly 4 weeks since my last run. I'm meant to give 5 to 6 weeks healing time, so I'm probably going to continue to hold off running again for a week or two more. I might be asking for advice on what to wear in wet and/or cold conditions soon!
Mr Stumble
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Andy,
A good name drives people to your blog. In particular, you would be well served to pick a name that screams you're uniqueness. I always liked your Mr. Stumbles tag line. Something along the lines of:
Mr. Stumbles Diary
Runninng with Mr. Stumbles
Stumbling through life
Mr. Stumbles Mumbles (sp?)
Stumbling through England / Britan / the United Kingdom, etc
Or make it simple:
Running through England
Central British Runner
British Runner
Diary of a Mad Brit
Speedy Brit (you can dream)
Running from Pub to Pub
So many pubs, so little time
You get the idea.
Good luck
Phil,
Thanks for the ideas. I hadn't even begun to think of using Stumble in the title. Doh!
A quick hit on http://www.rhymezone.com/ gives me bumble, humble, fumble, tumble and mumble, but then I started playing with *le and came up with:
"Mr Stumble in the urban jungle".
It might still need some work ;)
Andy
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