Guest STRIDE Story By Trevor Hirst For me, parkrun is about much more than running 5km. It’s about setting goals, challenging myself, staying active and enjoying the people I meet along the way. I’m naturally a goal-driven person. Throughout my career and personal life, I’ve always believed in setting targets, taking responsibility for achieving themContinue reading “100 parkruns: Setting Goals, Finding Friends and Embracing the Challenge”
Author Archives: Michael Walker
Running, Resilience, and Finding Balance
By Stephen Logan Content note: This personal story includes references to suicide, bereavement and mental health. My running journey didn’t begin with grand marathon aspirations, a bucket list or even a desire to chase fast times. It started in the wake of tragedy with a colleague who died by suicide. In that immediate, shattering aftermath,Continue reading “Running, Resilience, and Finding Balance”
How Do We Find a Stride We Can Sustain?
What a new running community is making me think about work, belonging and flourishing in education. How do we continue to do work that matters to us without continually depleting the resources we need to do it? It’s a question I’ve been thinking about increasingly over the last few years. And, perhaps slightly unexpectedly, startingContinue reading “How Do We Find a Stride We Can Sustain?”
More Than the Miles
What running — and finding a running community — gives me Running has become one of those things in my life that gives me far more than I ever expect from it. On the surface, it is simple: put on a pair of trainers, get out of the door and put one foot in frontContinue reading “More Than the Miles”
The Lie We Tell Ourselves: “I’ll Start When Things Calm Down.”
It’s getting late. You know you should go for that run. But you’re tired. Tomorrow feels like a better option. Tomorrow becomes next week. Next week becomes next term. And before you know it, months have passed. I know this pattern because I lived it for years. I kept telling myself that I would startContinue reading “The Lie We Tell Ourselves: “I’ll Start When Things Calm Down.””
Why I Started STRIDE: Helping Education Move
For a long time, I told myself I didn’t have time to run. I was a teacher, then a headteacher. There was always something else that needed doing. Another email. Another meeting. Another problem to solve. Another priority that somehow felt more important than making time for myself. Running could wait. The problem was thatContinue reading “Why I Started STRIDE: Helping Education Move”
