Well I have to admit to some  failure in my ability to update and maintain this blog. The biggest sin in blogging appears to be failing to blog regularly. Really , I have tried! But I don't have a job with any real regular pattern to it, and I can easily find myself in different part of the country every  day of the week.

I am also conscious about what I write. It just seems too easy to cut and paste a few links and say 'what do you think about that?' I don't think that adds value at all and devalues the purpose. surely one should be adding some thought or commentary.

I am also  being more fastidious as I have been reading

What I talk about when I talk about running- Haruki Murakami

Murakami is one of my favourite authors.His style is very hard to explain. It always a first person narrative, and its deceptively simple. Its like sliding on very polished marble. Its beautifully smooth, it feels effortless but you know  an awful lot of effort went into producing it.

His latest book, is even more humbling for me, as he writes about his running. He s very modest about his running, but the man can run!  a marathon  every year! 62 miles in day ! triathlons! It  really is a demonstration  of will.  As he did with writing  where he simply just started writing one day, the same is with running, he simply started running one day.

What impresses me the most is how  he finds time to do this, plus all is other  works. How he is so self disciplined and meticulous  in what he does. Apart from the obvious  benefits of exercise it also does help focus the mind , particularly as you grow older. The challenge of simply having the same drive you has when you were younger needs  a degree of discipline and focus and somehow that can be be archived through physical effort.

Somehow i need to create a pattern in my own life that allows this physical effort and drive the production  of better more steady work.

So how does this make me a better blogger? I am not really sure, I will have to work on it, you will be my judge.