Kieron James

Running

Morning run 🏃‍♂️

Hyde Park, as planned. Beautiful weather today. Felt yesterday’s seven miler in my legs a little today, but it was a lovely run. Lots of runners and walkers out enjoying the sunshine in the parks.

Running

Morning run 🏃‍♂️

London again and one of my usual routes on a Saturday morning, often timed to coincide with the Battersea Park run which I meet coming in the opposite direction. Today was good. Started out feeling tight and a little sore in the left IT band but it eased off after

Running

Morning run 🏃‍♂️

Back to running how I feel like running. I woke up yesterday pondering on why I’m trying to get faster. I’m not at the age where PBs are a possibility. I like to run and it makes me feel good, particularly at times when life presents so many

Podcasts

Inspired by Success 🎙️

Thanks so much to the fabulous Linda Vo for inviting me to speak on her podcast Inspired by Success. Show notes Discover the inspiring journey of Kieron James, the founder of Wonderful Payments and Wonderful charity fundraising platform. In this thought-provoking interview, he shares his entrepreneurial wisdom and passion for

Running

Morning run 🏃‍♂️

Still feeling tired. But today it was a lack of sleep, rather than tired legs. I guess it’s an unavoidable downside of age, but it’s frustrating that it seems to take much longer - and a lot more work - to bring fitness levels back. I’ve lacked

Running

Morning run 🏃‍♂️

I love the views around here. And I also love having to earn them. Lots of climbing on today’s run. Started with the usual pull up past La Finca en route to Sotogrande International School. Then a right turn towards Castellar. Heading in that direction the ascent continues, but

Running

Morning run 🏃‍♂️

Today was terrible. It was supposed to be speed intervals but before I even slipped the trainers on, I knew that wasn’t happening. As lovely and relaxed as last Sunday’s half, this was awful. Tired legs, tired everything. I’ve not run since Tuesday and there’s been

Running

Morning run 🏃‍♂️

Back in London for a couple of days and the sunshine came with me. 😎 I wanted to hit the mid point in the easy running target pace range (8:38 - 9:38) today, so fairly pleased with that. Not great sleep for the last two nights (late home after

Running

Afternoon run 🏃‍♂️

April half marathon ✅ I had no inclination to run this morning. Nor yesterday. I’ve just felt really tired. Sleepy tired. not wanting to get out of bed tired. But by this afternoon, I was starting to get a little stir crazy. The weather was perfect for a run and

Running

Morning run 🏃‍♂️

Another progression run this morning (and another failed attempt to hit the target pace of 6:38 - 6:58. In fact, today was slower than Sunday’s effort. Greg, my virtual Garmin coach, will not be pleased 🙃 and I’m sure his confidence score has dropped. I am definitely

Running

Morning run 🏃‍♂️

Feeling surprisingly low on energy today. Not sure if it’s psychological, but running felt harder than it should have after a rest day. Not worryingly so, just a little frustrating.

Podcasts

Celebrating Small Family Businesses🎙️

Huge thanks to John and Connie Kuder for inviting Carmen and me onto their podcast last week. Show notes In this episode of Celebrating Small Family Businesses, hosts John and Connie Kuder interview Kieron and Carmen James, father and daughter co-founders of two businesses named Wonderful. ‎Celebrating Small Family Businesses:

Running

Lunch run 🏃‍♂️

Today was the feared progression run with a target time of 6:28 - 6:48 for the quick 10 minute section. That pace was too fast for me. I managed 7:13 which shows how far I have to go. I’ve avoided faster running for a long time

Running

Lunch run 🏃‍♂️

Keen to nail the Zone 2 heart rate which is tricky with the hills, even at a comfortable pace. But I was reasonably pleased with this one. With an extra day off this week, I was feeling strong and well rested. I also decided to run later and enjoy an

Podcasts

Financial Freedom 🎙️

I was delighted to join Dr Christopher H. Loo on his Financial Freedom podcast this week. Show notes In a recent enlightening conversation with Kieron James, the CEO and founder of Wonderful, we delved into how his innovative approach to payments is not only transforming the commercial payments landscape but

Running

Morning run [commute] 🏃‍♂️

A chilly but bright start to the day. Very nice run into the office. Dropped the pace down a few seconds per mile and that seemed to do the trick for maintaining the heart rate in Zone 2 for most of the run most of the run (143bpm average). That