Pint to pint running (Week Notes, 14, 2025)

Cathedral to Castle 2025

We returned to the Cathedral to Castle for a second year. This is a 10-mile point to point run, from Lichfield (Cathedral) to Tamworth (Castle), and then onto the fantastic Tamworth Tap. Last year I was running jet lagged, so it was nice to be back and a bit more aware of my surroundings this year. It's a grand day out on a mix of terrain, and a perfect step up run for anyone building to Spring/Summer half marathons.

Get yourself booked in for 2026.

Trigger's Macbook

I wrote up a little bit about reviving my old MacBook Pro.

Links for the week

These are the links that struck a chord with me this week.

Bryan's Gunn revealed some insights into how he makes his video series, and launched his work supporting Trussell Trust:

Football Cliches Podcast | Free Listening on Podbean App

Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker explore the glorious and unique language of football: the words, the phrases, the mannerisms and, above all, th

PodBeanAdam Hurrey & Goalhanger

I'm not in love with the frame of "a good side project"—it's discursively too close to "side hustle", it's edging productivity-speak and grindset mentality—but that aside this is a nice piece about remembering to find time to do something for yourself.

The blissful zen of a good side project

One of life’s greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.

Josh Collinsworth

Eject Desk is "a declaration. A reckoning. And a call to return to ourselves before we try to rebuild anything else". Some of you might need it. For the rest of us, it's a lovely old fashioned feeling web page.

Eject disk.

A manifesto for everyone stuck in the system that keeps crashing you. What follows here isn’t a framework or a fix—it’s a declaration. A reckoning. And a call to return to ourselves before we try to rebuild anything else. We’re all watching the wheel spin, hoping

BrilliantcrankGreg Storey

Pure joy:

DcTurner (@dcturner.bsky.social)

I gift to you a moment of joy. Alan Moore and Stewart Lee enjoying an angry response to one of Stewart’s Guardian columns. (sound on of course)

Bluesky Social

Here's a fun piece by The Dispatch, the Birmingham+Black Country newsletter from Mill Media:

Is this millionaire councillor lying about his address?

Wolverhampton’s Milkinderpal Jaspal claims he lives in an Air BnB above a garage

The DispatchKate Knowles

And that's it for now! 👋