Stephen Day

I've just signed up to run the Great Northern Gallop 2026 with a minature horse!🐎

21.08.2025 00:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A small stony stream heads down through farmland on a sunny, blue sky day.

A small stony stream heads down through farmland on a sunny, blue sky day.

On top of a hill in Belmont Reserve, looking out towards the skyline in the distance on a beautiful, blue sky day.

Presumably, I think these are some of the boulders on top of Boulder Hill.

An epic Friday adventure today in Belmont Reserve. A run from Manor Park into Dry Creek and then meandering through Belmont Resrve, before popping out on Normandale Road. Lots of cows, mud, sunshine and hills.

15.08.2025 03:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm normally in favour of joke candidacies because they expose the narrowed, vanilla choices that electoral politics can sometimes leave us with. But in this instance, I worry they may distract from just how ill-informed and ill-prepared some of the other candidates are.

04.08.2025 23:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

View of rocks and sea from Matiu Somes Island

Two people walking on bush path on Matiu Somes Island.

Person looking at a seagull perched on a pole on Matiu Somes Island.

View of lighthouse and Wellington harbour from Matiu Somes Island

This week's Friday adventure was to Matiu Somes, with my son, visiting from uni, and his friend.

25.07.2025 05:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I watched the first half of David Attenborough’s The Ocean last night, after being directed to do so by my teenager. I was in tears for all the little fish! I’m scared to go back tonight for the second half — I’m not sure I can endure more trauma!🐟

30.06.2025 19:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yup, it was a wind bath!

23.06.2025 03:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm running a second lap at the Shaw Baton Relay at Queen Elizabeth II Park, Paekākāriki.

It was a fun Matariki weekend celebrating cross-country running. On Friday, I was at the Vaoga Cup in Whanganui. On Saturday, I was running in the Shaw Baton Relay at an unusual Paekākāriki course, and on Sunday, I ran up and over Mt Kaukau to the Crows Nest.

23.06.2025 02:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

New climate litigation:
With our friends, Lawyers for Climate Action NZ Inc, we are taking legal action against the Minister of Climate Change over ‘glaring holes’ in the Government’s climate plan.

Learn all about the case here: eli.org.nz/cases/erp2

#climate #climatelitigation #emissions

10.06.2025 02:03 — 👍 19    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1

Dorne Cup race, stream crossing

Dorne Cup race, stream crossing

All the best Dorne Cup race photos take place at the stream crossing! No one shares photos of other parts of the race, such as their low cadence slog across muddy football fields.

09.06.2025 18:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Miramar peninsula is disappearing into the incoming southerly clouds

This Friday's adventure - a tramp around the Miramar Peninsula that turned into a jog to avoid the incoming southerly. When we left, the sea was flat as glass. By the time I was biking home, I was standing on my pedals to make progress through the wind.

06.06.2025 03:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mangahao River from the dam.

Jeltsje stands on a bridge in the bush

Rainy view out the window of Burn Hut.

Tributary to Mangahao River

This Friday's adventure extended into Saturday: Flash dinner while watching Hihi and the Stitchbirds perform at the Raumati Social Club, then tramping into Burn Hut from Mangahao Reservoir #2.

31.05.2025 21:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This week I took my daughter and friends to their football game in Upper Hutt. It's a joy to explain to other sideline parents that I save enough money from not owning a car that I can afford to hire a Mevo regularly. Carless is easy and pleasant in a city with good bike lanes and public transport.

27.05.2025 21:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love the lads at GCN. They are a charming combination of passion for silly sports challenges and essential political challenges. I'm now imagining a life where we only need to travel 7km a day.

25.05.2025 00:00 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Toadstool 🍄

Cabbage trees

Massey Memorial

23.05.2025 00:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rock in wellington harbour

Cows on a hill ridge

WW2 bunker covered in graffiti

Ragged pine tree on a hill ridge

This Friday's adventure was a hikoi around Mt Crawford.

23.05.2025 00:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Stephen's review of The Remains of the Day 5/5: I read this book knowing nothing about it before I began, other than it had been made into a movie that I had not seen. I had read Klara and the Sun and loved that book, so that was my incentive ...

Only 36 years late with my review of the Remains of the Day www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

16.05.2025 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Extremely awkward watching He Huang's hilarious White Man's Burden show tonight. Especially as I'd been stingy and bought 2-4-1 tickets. I and fellow white males were well skewered! Luckily, I didn't get picked for any audience interaction, despite my apparent white maleness.

13.05.2025 10:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Transcript of my real-time race analysis – University Relays by Stephen Day The new-ish format for the University Relays, with its mixed gender races and combined age categories rather than traditional age grades, makes for some fascinating permutations. Wit…

I wrote a short race review of the University Relays over the weekend scottishathletics.org.nz/2025/05/11/t...

13.05.2025 01:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0