Dear Diary…
Met the lads (no-one) in the beautiful morning sun (evening, pitch black and raining) for the traditional Sunday ‘long run’ (3.19km – no, that’s not a misplaced decimal).
It’s day one. The comeback has begun.
Ran loops (four,…
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Senselessness
The Secret Diary of GF, aged 34 and a half…
Injury.
Why not? It is winter after all.
My body has a way of taking all of the hard work from the Spring and Summer and switching the reset come Winter. Back to zero. Start again.
I like my body…
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Myths and Truths
It’s Half Term in Cumbria. Ahhhhhhhhhh, beauty. This means daytime telly. Top Gear on ‘Dave’, Jeremy Kyle being Jeremy Kyle (i.e. a self-righteous prick) and Mythbusters.
‘Mythbusters’ is my inspiration as I sit here on the couch.
Couch.
What a…
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Vests in the breeze
A recent post on my Instagram feed got me thinking (I am, shamelessly, my own best muse at times) about the importance that I seem to place on ‘belonging’.
The more I’ve thought of it, the more it seems to…
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Occam’s Razor
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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The Importance of ‘Could’….
….and why ‘potential’ is the greatest athletic gift.
“You’re never as good as anybody says you are”. So said Eoin Morgan, England’s ODI cricketing captain. He should know, England have just yesterday been beaten by Scotland; a team ranked 13th…
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Reflections: Old Life/New Life
I’m just in the death throes of an old way of earning. In a few short weeks I’ll be jumping from one frying pan into another very similar frying pan, albeit one that I feel more alive to.
Nearly six…
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Realities: Colour = Speed
……and no, that’s not racist.
Take a lookey-loo at the photo below. What do you notice?
Did you say something along the lines of “all the lead runners’ shoes are super bright and colourful”?
Yes?
Well, give yourself a solid…
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Should we chuck piss at Chris?*
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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Who scared off the Beasts?!?
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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