So, what is this all about.
For too long now I have been thinking that my blog is or could be interesting to other people and of course I have learnt that it isn’t. That is my fault for not making it interesting. These days I don’t do anything wildly exciting anyway. Yes I am a 66 year old successful runner and done lots of interesting things and races over the years (50 years of running) but because a lot was pre-internet and when the internet did come along I wasn’t very good at promoting myself, pouting, talking about what I had eaten that day, I think you get the drift, well my blog just became boring. I have had an interesting life and when I talk to people about it they say I need to put it down on paper and write a book about my life. Well I am not going to because I think most people who don’t know me would find it boring or maybe even average. So, my stories may or may not come out over the years, who knows or even cares.
So that’s the depressing bit over and done with. Where am I now. Well, last year did a 50k Ultra running race and loved every minute. It was one of the most enjoyable races I have done for many years. 32 miles from Exmouth to Exeter, around Exeter a couple of time and back again. It was awesome and I came 11th in a time of 5.19 I also as part of the training for it did a race from Dartmoor Prison to Ivybridge, 16 miles straight across Dartmoor and just loved it and I now now I really like Dartmoor and I am going to spend more time up there. I have started signing up for races for 2022 including running to 50k Ultra again in October.
I have also joined the Royal Photographic Society and I am going to work towards a L.R.P.S. I am also going to join Exmouth photo club. I need to renew my enthusiasm for photography again and get my brain working and exercised again. I feel that the pandemic has really knocked my enthusiasm for it. Also I think because down here in Devon there just isn’t the same scope for the dark urban industrial landscapes that I so love and the music, theatre and journalism that I loved. And so I am going to change direction and focus on documentary and contemporary photography/projects. I don’t expect it to be very easy at all but equally that is why I want to do it, to get my brain working again.
I, like so many others in the world have been locked down and keeping my distance from others and have lost my way and enthusiasm for so many things. I don’t for one minute think that I am depressed or in a depressing state but I do think I have lost my way over the last couple of years of the pandemic.
So, here goes…….let’s see what happens.
pete dewhirst Photography 