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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Mountain Fuel Xtreme Energy Fuel Raw

Phew that’s a pseudo-Euro-syntactical mouthful eh? Luckily I was able to read that title aloud with aplomb thanks to the lubricating effects of a slurp from my own batch of Xtreme Energy Fuel Raw. How convenient. I should say that…
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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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Realities: The Man with the Hammer

Wait.......MC?! Is that....you??
This is a slightly multi-faceted post. I have, like pushing mincemeat through a keyhole, hopefully, managed to link the eponymous ‘Man avec Hammer’ with both hard training and the unintended consequences of ‘hard training’. We’ll see how it reads…… Sure…
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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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Fashionable Food and Fads

I have recently had a fairly stark realisation that ‘the man’ has (had) firmly got me in ‘his’ grip. This epiphany came about slowly at first but has now exploded into a true awakening, pretty much as a result of…
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Realities: What Comes Down….

A new year and a new month. Happy 2018 everyone! It’s the second instalment of the (fell) running realities series. Those quirks of this niche that are undeniable and irrefutable. This month……hills. Don’t fear science….sometimes it’s right! What comes down…
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Racing: Styles, Secrets and Tips

Racing is a dark art. Fell racing the most noir. Arguably the cauldron of art and science. Monet, after all, did not mix his own paint. What does that mean? No-one knows. Mystery. Conjecture, from which all good debates must…
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