Training reflections………and some more Grit

Not injured anymore (touch wood). Plane to Spain to escape the rain, no more pain from the bad weather restrain, time to train etc etc. What’s it called when words rhyme like that? Alliteration? Onomatopoeia? Who knows. Anyway. Time to…
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Dark Horses No.3

My next ‘Dark Horse’ isn’t so much a ‘horse’ as a stallion! A man who pulls down so hard that his hair has fell out! A raw crushing machine running on the powder of trodden down baby bones and lion’s blood. Okay…
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Dark Horses No. 2

As if on cue, and to what roughly may look like some kind of planned schedule, i have received the answers to the questions of both my second and third installments of the ‘Dark Horse’ articles. By way of the…
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Darks Horses No.1

Feeling a little ‘low’ and uninspired? Want to live vicariously through other, more talented people? Not as strong/bold/French as you’d like? Unable to pass urine without wincing? Brother’s. Sister’s. I feel your pain! If, like me, you want all of…
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Bowderstone, St. Bees and a ‘Quince’

In the week that saw petrol prices hit a staggering 130.9p a litre (that’s SHIT by the way if you’re reading this from America) i was trundling my way North to the Lakes. 50mph MAX to save as much fuel as…
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