……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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Too much of a good thing…..
I’m yet to fully realise the positive side and definitely cannot see the funny side. Yup. I’m injured. The old achilles has got a bit pissed off with me prancing about in XC spikes and had a bit of a…
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Realities: Le Metier
Ya gots ta put in the work. About 10,000hrs (a perfectly round figure by coincidence….) should do it according to the pseudo-science of ‘Big’ Malky Gladwell. The sentiment is there though; be strict, put in the hours and reap the…
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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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Seal Cub Clubbing Club
What’s with all these clubs huh?! What even is a club?? Fell-running’s got its fair share right? What are they? Where are they? And are they any good? Who’s the best? Who’s the worst? Who even cares?!………….me. I do. So,…
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Time to Train
To those of you who whinge and moan about not having anywhere to train or no time to train I say NAY.
Nay to your attitude.
You suck.
Boo to you.
Allow me to hold myself up as the antidote…
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UPDATE: Racing Calender 2017
So, life happens.
My mega, awesome racing schedule for this year has gone up in smoke due to my shite job.
Adapt (to their fuck about) and overcome (their bullying whims) as my work is wont to say.
As such…
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