Road Running – bleurgh

07 Nov 2018
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Equilibrium: Part 2

Sticky Post By On November 7, 2018 With No Comments
Cumbria XC
It’s now November aka ‘Movember’. A month where I’m not allowed to hate folk who can grow moustaches that I can’t do due to crap facial hair genes, as it’s for a good cause and all. That’s ok by me…
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26 Oct 2018
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Equilibrium: Intro and Part 1

Sticky Post By On October 26, 2018 With 2 Comments
I’ve been struggling to find the motivation and time to write much on here of late. The reason being that I’ve started training for a new career. Teaching. Now, I’ve heard all sorts on this. Everyone seems to have an…
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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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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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15 Oct 2017
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Time to Train

Sticky Post By On October 15, 2017 With No Comments
To those of you who whinge and moan about not having anywhere to train or no time to train I say NAY. Nay to your attitude. You suck. Boo to you. Allow me to hold myself up as the antidote…
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07 Apr 2017
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Plaudits for artistic merit…..

Sticky Post By On April 7, 2017 With 2 Comments
Money for old rope this. It’s been a subject that’s raised it’s schward a few times in the past and, well, it’s raised it again. I’m talking, of course, about aesthetics….. aesthetic or esthetic [es-thet-ik or, esp. British, ees-] Synonyms…
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26 Jul 2016
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The Bob Graham Round: The Sum Of Your Parts…..Part Two

Sticky Post By On July 26, 2016 With 1 Comment
So to the crux of the matter I suppose. Everything was in place and good to go. Had a last minute drop-out from a pacer on Leg 2 but I wasn’t mega phased as Ben is pretty handy at this…
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17 Feb 2016
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Anatomy of a Hawk

Sticky Post By On February 17, 2016 With 4 Comments
Scottish National XC 2014....also muddy
My time in Scotland is drawing inexorably to a close and with it my membership of, without a doubt (and sorry Ambleside – you’ll understand), the best running club I have ever been a part of. Those that know me…
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31 Jul 2014
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July = bleeding nips at Arrochar and other stuff too

Sticky Post By On July 31, 2014 With No Comments
Let’s see what odds and sods Google drags in from their search engines with a blog title like this shall we?! If you’re new to this site……welcome. It’s probably not what you were expecting!Luckily it was hot enough at the…
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