Jacob Howe

Sessions for Tues 24th March: 4 x 1200m + 5 x 300m, or tempo 3-4 x 10mins. With some track repairs this week at #finsburyparktrack, the tempo option is attractive. #running

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

@Clissoldpeople Can't make this, but have a good day's planting.

@JacobMHowe Not full, no. There are some trees there but nothing that would make it a tiny forest, which is the aim.

TOMORROW looks to set to be a perfect day for planting! Come along at 1pm to help out! 16°C and sunny all day ☀️ ☀️ ☀️ ☀️ bit.ly/4kwHIEq

Sessions for Tues March 17th: 4-6+ x 1600m, or tempo, 20mins, 10mins, 5mins #finsburyparktrack #running

Sessions for Tuesday March 3rd. 2-4 x (1200m, 800m, 400m) or tempo 2x20mins. #running #finsburyparktrack

Sessions for Tues Feb 24th: 8-10 x 800m or tempo 3 x 10mins. #running #finsburyparktrack

Sessions for Tues Feb 17th: 4 x 1200m + 5 x 300m, or tempo: 4 x (mile tempo, mile steady) #running #finsburyparktrack

Sessions for Tuesday Feb 10th: 4-7 x 1200m, or tempo option of 3 x 15min #finsburyparktrack #running

Sessions for Tues Feb 3rd: 2 x 1600m + 8 x 400m, or tempo, 20mins, 10mins, 5mins. Nudging the marathoners to the latter.

Sessions for Tues Jan 27th: 4-6 x 1600m or 3-4 x 10mins tempo. #finsburyparktrack #running

The TfL consultation on shortening the 38 bus route closes tomorrow - I cannot support these proposals. See my article on why we need to save it: meghillier.com/post/meg-s-hac…

Sessions for Tues Jan 20th: 4 x 1200m + 5 x 300m, or tempo: 3miles, 2miles, 1miles. #finsburyparktrack #running

Sessions for Tues Jan 13th: 4-7 x 1200m or 2 x 15mins tempo at #finsburyparktrack #running

Sessions for Tuesday Jan 6th: well... the set track session is 2 x 1600m + 8x400m, but #finsburyparktrack does tend to hold ice on the home straight, so we may be looking at alternatives. Hill reps from Finsbury Park gate or tempo: 3 x 10mins. #running

Last Saturday saw a very successful Middlesex XC Championships for the Club SW 1st, SM 2nd, U20M 1st, U17W 1st, U15B 1st Thomas Archer was the club's 1st SM Champion. Fred Beale was the U20 Champion.

#LindsaysRoad: Babcock race to host our Scottish 10k Champs in Glasgow - Scottish Athletics scottishathletics.org.uk/lindsays-10k-g… via @ScotAthletics

What is more painful than not winning yet? Everyone congratulating me because the papers are saying that we have won. Didn’t realise how ignorant political correspondents are…. Guys: the govemrnet have just announced a policy with zero statuary weight. It’s almost meaningless.

Sessions for Tues Dec 16th: 8-10 x 800m, or tempo: 20mins, 10mins, 5mins. #finsburyparktrack #running

@paulmasonnews Labour is haemorrhaging support for its bizarre determination to trash what little nature the UK has left. x.com/Natures_Voice/…

Time for the Green Party to dissolve - splitting the socialist vote and letting Reform f*** the planet. See how this fake 💩works? Our Flag Stays Red 🚩