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07 May 2017
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Mountain Fuel

Sticky Post By On May 7, 2017 With No Comments
I’m almost 100% sure that if you’ve found yourself reading this then you’ll have, in the same measure, heard of Mountain Fuel. If not…where have you been?!? They have taken the ultra/endurance/mountain (clue’s in the name, dumbo) community by storm…
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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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17 Feb 2017
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Racing Calendar 2017

Sticky Post By On February 17, 2017 With No Comments
Ok so just a super quick heads-up on what I’ve got myself signed up for this coming year (injury/money/life permitting)….. Coledale Horseshoe – April Lairig Ghru – June Welsh 1000m – June Gross Glockner Berglauf (Austria) – July Dolomites VK…
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23 Dec 2016
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Seasons: Autumn into Winter

Sticky Post By On December 23, 2016 With No Comments
Things went quiet after the Bobby G. I’d torn my shin muscle at some point on the first ‘leg’ and the continued running over the subsequent four ‘legs’ made for a fairly long period of rehabilitation. I managed to get…
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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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26 Jul 2016
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The Bob Graham Round: The Sum Of Your Parts…..Part One

Sticky Post By On July 26, 2016 With No Comments
On Saturday 23rd July at 1am I set off on a series of 5 short runs around the Lakes that I linked together into what is known as the ‘Bob Graham Round’…….BGR for short – you may have already read…
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10 Jul 2016
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Seasons: Spring….and a bit

Sticky Post By On July 10, 2016 With No Comments
Spring has come and gone (apparently) and here in the draughty corridors of Fellicionado Hall we’re having a clear out of some of the old memories from those halcyon days before the rains hit and brought with them, what we…
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21 Sep 2015
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The Aesthete

Sticky Post By On September 21, 2015 With No Comments
My boss once told me that there’s more to life than running. There isn’t. In the context that he was talking in he was wrong. In that context I would say there’s more to life than work. Infinitely more. Running,…
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03 Apr 2015
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Fellrunning: A Punter’s Guide – The Scottish Championships 2015

Sticky Post By On April 3, 2015 With No Comments
The Man.......he may or may not look like this.
Better late than never. I have unfortunately missed the boat with this one though at least one of my predictions will be right….hindsight being the wonder that it is. You’ve had the British Championships guide and so with the metaphoric…
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