Nothing like a good 4 month lay-off from racing to get you psyched for a touch of training. Especially when in your first race back you get spanked.
I’ve joined a new club – Dundee Hawkhill Harriers who seem at…
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Ethos
Does the media affect YOUR climbing/running style?
No? Oh.
Confused by what I’m on about? You’re not alone, I don’t really understand where I’m going with this but I’ll give it a whirl and if you’re still with me at the end then we should maybe see…
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You can tell I’m bored……
Yup, TWO inane posts within 20 minutes of each other. Bore off right?! Wrong. Read this and shut up!
Sorry. Please do read this though, or rather go to this. The website I mean. This one. Here…….www.velominati.com It’s reet good.P.S. I…
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Bog and Burn
I ran my second race in the rather aptly titled ‘Bog and Burn’ series. These, for those that don’t know but still care, are a series of midweek races within the central belt of Scotland for those runners who came…
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Training reflections………and some more Grit
Not injured anymore (touch wood). Plane to Spain to escape the rain, no more pain from the bad weather restrain, time to train etc etc. What’s it called when words rhyme like that? Alliteration? Onomatopoeia? Who knows. Anyway. Time to…
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Ever attainable goals?
Hands up everyone of you who has a route that they’ve wanted to do for, well, ever and has kept putting it off, and putting it off, and putting it off and……well you can see where this is going! I…
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Top 3-ish Moments in Climbing
Uh oh i fear i may have opened up a can or 2 (or 3 if you will) of worms here. This title suggests that i may soon be inundated with every Tom, Dick and Reginald’s story of “the day i…
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Dark Horses No. 4
What is happening?? I barely even know who this next guy is and yet here i am preparing to let him into a pretty exclusive club of stallions. Why? Well, without giving too much away, he has a way of…
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The Key to Reinspiration……….
…………is gritstone soloing dummy!
Had a day off yesterday from the ‘hustle and bustle’ of my restaurant job so went up to the Peak with my mate Nick for some form of climbing. We hiked the bags up to Stanage…
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Dark Horses No.3
My next ‘Dark Horse’ isn’t so much a ‘horse’ as a stallion! A man who pulls down so hard that his hair has fell out! A raw crushing machine running on the powder of trodden down baby bones and lion’s blood. Okay…
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