Like father like son

This newsletter was originally published on Patreon on 14 December 2020

My son, Ossian, has started running. He’s 11, about the same age I was when I first discovered running. He hasn’t had some sort of epiphany, however, as I did, when I won my school cross country and realised I was pretty good at this running lark. Not quite. His games teacher has set the class the challenge to each run a marathon across the month of Dec…