“Europe”

05 Dec 2020
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Chasing Giants – unedited

Sticky Post By On December 5, 2020 With 3 Comments
This year I achieved a fell running dream, to have an article published in The Fellrunner. I ramble a bit, as you may have noticed, and so the article in question was edited a touch as it took up too…
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02 Aug 2019
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Spring/Summer 2019

Sticky Post By On August 2, 2019 With 2 Comments
I’ve finished the formal part of my teacher training. One year as an ‘NQT’ (Newly Qualified Teacher) means that I will then be ‘fully’ fully qualified. That’s all I’ve really got to say on that. Running has been going alright.…
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26 Jul 2018
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Occam’s Razor

Sticky Post By On July 26, 2018 With No Comments
Occam’s Razor: (Latin – lex parsimoniae “law of parsimony”) a scientific and philosophical rule that states that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex. Gee, thanks for that…….got to ask though, WTF?? Settle petal, and let…
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02 Apr 2018
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Should we chuck piss at Chris?*

Sticky Post By On April 2, 2018 With 1 Comment
It strikes me as odd that some of the best endurance athletes in the world all seem to have spent their childhood working in the coal industry during the 1800s. How else can we explain why so many of them…
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26 Feb 2018
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Who scared off the Beasts?!?

Sticky Post By On February 26, 2018 With No Comments
Treat yourself to a rarity here for I have ‘done my research’. Well, some anyway. It’s patchy at best if I’m honest and consists of reading a book and half-heartedly glancing at spurious headlines from potentially unqualified sources. But. It’s…
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20 Aug 2017
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Summer: Twenty-seventeen

Sticky Post By On August 20, 2017 With No Comments
Aside from a couple of anomalies my fell season has been just shy of 10 days long. Frustrating? Yes. Surprising? Not so much. Injury and ‘life’ have both got in the way. Mainly the ‘life’ side of things. I had…
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16 May 2017
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UPDATE: Racing Calender 2017

Sticky Post By On May 16, 2017 With No Comments
So, life happens. My mega, awesome racing schedule for this year has gone up in smoke due to my shite job. Adapt (to their fuck about) and overcome (their bullying whims) as my work is wont to say. As such…
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17 Feb 2017
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Racing Calendar 2017

Sticky Post By On February 17, 2017 With No Comments
Ok so just a super quick heads-up on what I’ve got myself signed up for this coming year (injury/money/life permitting)….. Coledale Horseshoe – April Lairig Ghru – June Welsh 1000m – June Gross Glockner Berglauf (Austria) – July Dolomites VK…
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03 Feb 2016
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Ride like lightning, crash like thunder……..

Sticky Post By On February 3, 2016 With No Comments
......crash like thunder.
You can always rely on those fellas from over the water for a good quote. Found this absolute beauty just now, totally by accident I must add, whilst looking for some Andy Hampsten soundbites. Thought it good to share; the…
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21 Sep 2015
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The Aesthete

Sticky Post By On September 21, 2015 With No Comments
My boss once told me that there’s more to life than running. There isn’t. In the context that he was talking in he was wrong. In that context I would say there’s more to life than work. Infinitely more. Running,…
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