Brace yourselves, this is a rant.
FKTs (Fastest Known Times). WFC (Who F*cking Cares).
It’s the running equivalent of the ‘selfie’ i.e. it’s been around for years, people have been doing them for ages and now all of a sudden…
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Spring has sprung: A round-up
Seeing as no-one actually asked me what I’ve been up to this past few months, I thought I’d volunteer the information to save your shyness.
Training has been pretty consistent save for a niggle here and an illness there. I’ve…
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The Secret
I’m gonna let you in on a little summin’ summin’.
But first, some context.
When I was in Siurana climbing, oh, about 11 years ago or so, my mate Dave was gearing up to try a hard climb. His strategy…
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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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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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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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Realities: The Man with the Hammer
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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