Jess Guth @drjessguth - Bluesky Profile

Can’t think of a title for what this captures! I am struggling for a title because the usual ‘starting again’, ‘back to basics’… don’t quite fit. I had a therapy session this morning which was well timed because I have been struggling this week. Talking it through was so helpful and it all makes so much more sense now- I was/am completely over peopled. After a busy week that included a day on main campus, presentation to the Executive, 3 days of conferencing, running a team day, marshalling at a half marathon and then the great north run, my system is in shock.

Can’t think of a title for what this captures!

I am struggling for a title because the usual ‘starting again’, ‘back to basics’… don’t quite fit. I had a therapy session this morning which was well timed because I have been struggling this week. Talking it through was so helpful and it all makes…

12.09.2025 09:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Doing Hard Things Round 2: The Great North Run Photo by gillyphotography.co.uk Last weekend was a weekend of running adventures. Different adventures and experiences. On Saturday Kath took part in the last of the 2025 Due North CIC trail half marathon and 10 km series. I marshalled and had a lovely 90 minutes or so at the top of Malham Cove clapping and cheering on runners doing both the half marathon route and the 10km route before heading back to the finish to help hand out goodie bags and pies. It was glorious and energising and inspiring. Kath did really well, the runners were fabulous and it felt inclusive, supportive and fun.

Doing Hard Things Round 2: The Great North Run

Photo by gillyphotography.co.uk Last weekend was a weekend of running adventures. Different adventures and experiences. On Saturday Kath took part in the last of the 2025 Due North CIC trail half marathon and 10 km series. I marshalled and had a…

09.09.2025 09:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The media framing of “free speech” is so ridiculous that now people boycotting someone because of their bigoted views (ie exercising their freedom of speech to disassociate) is seen as “cancelling” while the state locking up people who dare to protest genocide generates limited to no media outrage.

19.08.2025 13:10 — 👍 52 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1

Public law practitioners: have you been involved in litigation regarding automated decision making by Government, or do you think you might be in future? The @publiclawproject.bsky.social are keen to speak to you.

28.08.2025 09:53 — 👍 8 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 2

Doing Hard Things Me, about half way round the Rasselbock Half Marathon I started this post quite some time ago - just after finishing the Rasselbock Running Half Marathon at Sherwood Pines just over a month ago. What I started trying to articulate then was that I like to think that I am quite good at doing hard things, that I am ok out of my comfort zone and that I trust myself to do have a go, figure it out and get it done. Just sometimes, I forget. I signed up last minute and did the half marathon to prove that I can indeed still do hard things and that doing those impossible things can indeed be fun.

Reflections on recent running adventures.

18.08.2025 08:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy more waking than running After my Happy Running in Bath, Edinburgh and at home, we headed to Seahouses for a week of writing and thinking for my DBA. We had a lovely little apartment and the perfect location and as well as some lovely walks on the beach I also had one little run. I didn’t go far and I found it really hard and was initially frustrated at the lack of fitness. I was also a bit unsettled because we’d had to change plans. The initial plan was to drive Kath to Craster for her to run back and for me to have a plod there before driving back.

Happy more waking than running

After my Happy Running in Bath, Edinburgh and at home, we headed to Seahouses for a week of writing and thinking for my DBA. We had a lovely little apartment and the perfect location and as well as some lovely walks on the beach I also had one little run. I didn’t go…

21.07.2025 15:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

UK Black Pride

If you can afford it, please consider donating to support UK Black Pride. The event is a nourishing space for many LGBTIQ+ folk who come from various racalised and religious backgrounds. With funding cuts, UK Black Pride needs donations to help keep the event free for everyone. Link below. Thanks! 🌈

18.07.2025 11:00 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Labour suspends Diane Abbott for second time over racism comments Party investigating after MP said she did not regret remarks about people experiencing racism in different ways

Racism is a system of inequality that stigmatises, polices, and impoverishes various groups of people based on ideas relating to skin colour, culture, geography, religion, etc. So of course it targets folk differently depending on their body or community. No one should apologise for pointing it out.

18.07.2025 10:00 — 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1

Happy Running You might have guessed, if you have been following my blog for a while, that I have not been in a happy running phase. It's been about persuading myself to get out at all and then just trying to get through to the end. It's been about trying to stick to a plan, about building consistency and not being hugely successful with any of that. And then there has been the silly self-consciousness and lack of self-belief. All the nonsense that led me to benching the brain a little while ago.

Here's some happy running for a change

30.06.2025 20:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a lucas & friends birthday card with two lit candles on top of a cake ALT: a lucas & friends birthday card with two lit candles on top of a cake

@drkatrinantweiler.bsky.social

16.06.2025 06:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reflections on Fugitive Practices in the University: Labouring in the Wake of Violence - Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Legal Studies -

“This moment necessitates that we trace & map the linkages between the various forms of oppression & harm we witness, locate their manifestations in the spaces we move in, & draw on these lessons to fight back.”

@norajaber.bsky.social & @leilaullrich.bsky.social reflect on being feminist fugitives.

13.06.2025 17:35 — 👍 7 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1

Showing Up For Yourself I have had a funny week. I didn't run until Thursday. And I nearly didn't then. I was so tired on Thursday. I just felt dead and empty. I struggled to focus on work. I had a window at lunchtime and I was so tired that I had to do something. My initial thought was to try a power nap but I was really worried I would sleep through the alarm and miss a meeting in the afternoon. So I put my gear on and went for a run. It seemed like a slightly insane idea but it worked.

Showing Up For Yourself

I have had a funny week. I didn't run until Thursday. And I nearly didn't then. I was so tired on Thursday. I just felt dead and empty. I struggled to focus on work. I had a window at lunchtime and I was so tired that I had to do something. My initial thought was to try a…

08.06.2025 19:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Benching the Brain I wrote about my Philly running adventures and noted I was going to come back to the plans for consistency and my inability to actually stick to those plans. So here we go. We got back from Philly and I felt good about running. But then I did almost nothing for 2 weeks. I managed some yoga but not as much as I wanted to really and I felt like jetlag properly kicked my butt. I didn't really get going until this week. I dragged my butt out for the first run of week 4 of Couch to 5km plan on the bank holiday Monday.

Benching the Brain

I wrote about my Philly running adventures and noted I was going to come back to the plans for consistency and my inability to actually stick to those plans. So here we go. We got back from Philly and I felt good about running. But then I did almost nothing for 2 weeks. I…

01.06.2025 15:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Philadelphia running We’ve been back from Philadelphia for 2 weeks now so it’s about time I caught up! I’m in the middle of a lush Spa Day so finally feel like I have the headspace to write. Philly was good for running for me. Here’s a summary: The Liberty Bell Run 1: the first morning we had a little explore round the block from the hotel using Couch to 5km week 3 intervals. Run 2: We ran (week 3 intervals again) to the Museum of Art and then obviously we took it in turns to run up the Rocky Steps.

Philadelphia running - finally catching up with blog posts

27.05.2025 12:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He really was

25.05.2025 18:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Black and white small kitten on a cushion facing the camera

In case anyone needs a kitten fix. Here’s our Odin 5 years ago just after he first came home.

25.05.2025 18:49 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So Kath just called baseball ‘Fancy Rounders’ and that’s what it will now always be in my brain

10.05.2025 23:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Setting Foundations? Setting Foundations? Is that the right way to look at what I am doing at the minute? I completed the final run of week 2 of the Couch to 5km programme I am doing. A day late really but it's a bank holiday so counts as weekend. I did mean to run yesterday but my period was really heavy and I felt crap. Maybe I should have just gone and got it done but I didn't. I also ran Saturday so maybe it's ok and a rest day in-between is better anyway.

Setting Foundations - uneventful really but with a bonus Einstein cat picture.

05.05.2025 17:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How is it Saturday again already? I don't really understand time. How is it that when I was a kid I could explore whole worlds in a day, summers lasted lifetimes and double maths on a Saturday (yes Saturday!) morning could drag on for what seemed like weeks. Now, some meetings feel like those double maths lessons but mostly the weeks just fly by. It was February a minute ago and I'm sure Kath's little big run and that core class I wrote about were really just yesterday... Obviously they weren't but the week has once again just disappeared.

I finally started week 2 of my Couch to 5km plan

03.05.2025 09:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Core Class Take 2 Today I went back to THAT class. I didn't want to. But I did. We were both tired. Work was busy today and we were both awake really early because there was a very vocal blue tit with a lot to say for itself right outside our window at about 4am. So we nearly talked ourselves and each other out of going to the class. But neither of us wanted a non attendance strike at the gym for not cancelling more than 4 hours before so we put our big girl pants on (in my case literally) and headed for the gym.

I went to the core class again - it's a passive aggressive stand off but at least my core had a workout.

28.04.2025 19:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yorkshire Dales running day I went for a little run today which felt a bit silly because Kath was on a big run. It was the Due North Burnsall Half. So while Kath was making her way over 13 and a bit miles of up and down some Dales bumps, I plodded along the river for three quarters of a mile. Not quite the same but still a stroke of genius on my part. In my head today was always about Kath's run and me supporting her. But I also hadn't run yesterday because I somehow just ran out of steam in the afternoon.

A Yorkshire Dales sort of morning

26.04.2025 18:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

London Marathon – Ballot entry But Why It's that time of year again - London Marathon Ballot time. I have entered. Of course I have entered. It's almost a ritual now and of course I won't get in because most people don't get in most years. But what if I did? I've been thinking about that because, as I may have mentioned, I really did not like my 2019 London Marathon. I have said several times that, unpopular as that opinion may be, I don't actually like the London Marathon. And yet... So I have been thinking about that.

London Marathon Ballot emotions:

25.04.2025 18:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Core Strength, Modifications and a run Meh, meh, meh. The strength session yesterday didn't break anything. I can feel the work but nothing is sore. I am not entirely sure what I have done today. The day just sort of disappeared. I made breakfast and tea and I vacuumed the bedroom. We did a bit more of our current Lego set (Natural History Museum) but otherwise - no idea. Kath went and ran her intervals. I didn't. We had the Core class booked at the PureGym this evening. I decided to run down. Well, it seemed the scenario that was mostly likely to result in me actually running today.

If you want to know how today's taking up space in the fitness world went - here's today's blog. It's a little grumpy

21.04.2025 19:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Gym If you are looking for some inspirational reframing following yesterday's post - you know the sort of 'it was all terrible but actually good because this good thing happened and personal growth... positivity... gratitude... #blessed...-then stop reading now. You're not getting that. The picture at the top is me dripping in sarcasm and rolling my eyes. Stronger than Yesterday is nonsense. The whole beating yesterday thing that pops up every now and again and was a staple of fitness industry advertising a while ago (not sure if it still is, I pay no attention), the idea that every time you go out and exercise, the session has to be better is nonsense.

Blogs are like busses - nothing for weeks and the 2 in a row!

20.04.2025 11:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me in my head Ah right, where are we. It's the end-ish of April. It's well over a months since I last posted. I wrote the last post while we were away and I was all set for starting week 2 of couch to 5km. Then I got food poisoning or a nasty tummy bug and wiped myself out for a week. Eventually I started back on the bike, the new gym opened and I went to some classes and did a couple of strength sessions and I have done the odd yoga flow and workout at home.

Me in my head

Ah right, where are we. It's the end-ish of April. It's well over a months since I last posted. I wrote the last post while we were away and I was all set for starting week 2 of couch to 5km. Then I got food poisoning or a nasty tummy bug and wiped myself out for a week. Eventually I…

19.04.2025 20:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Finding joy in little bricks today- Easter themed because why not

13.04.2025 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Quote for our time

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

— Ursula K Le Guin

12.04.2025 16:35 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Wasn’t expecting to be here today but I missed my direct connection to Keighley in Lancaster. Going via Preston and then Bradford was the fastest option. I will be home 2 hours later than planned. I had a brief sense of humour failure in Lancaster but I’m back just riding the wave. Adventures 🤷🏻‍♀️

12.04.2025 14:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Slide showing that legal sector still one of the least economically diverse in the country, and that there has been a significant regression between 2015 and 2023 - 14% reduction in those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

Slide showing the state of affairs in 2025 - elite firms dominated by white, privately educated, and without a disability.

Depressing slides from @drjessguth.bsky.social & Kathryn Dutton at the @altlaw.bsky.social Annual Conference, showing significant regression over the past decade:

"Between 2015 & 2023, the number of lawyers from lower socio-economic backgrounds reduced by a staggering 14%".

10.04.2025 13:46 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Incredible opening address from Dr Larysa Zhdankina at @altlaw.bsky.social conference.
Outlining the pivot in Ukranian legal education during wartime.
Goal is to develop ‘thoughtful, ethical and courageous’ lawyers.

10.04.2025 09:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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