Training: Psychology

Me and Rupert at Fitz Park (artist's impression)
I’m what I would call a realist. Others would take a look at that realism and in turn refer to me as a pessimist. This to me is ironically funny as that opinion in itself appears to be a pessimistic…
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The Fellicionado ‘Movingpicturesmith’ Awards 2015

During the hours of darkness there’s nothing more I enjoy than watching a film (well, there are a couple of other things but for the purposes of this post let’s politely ignore what they could be). In keeping with the…
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The Fellicionado ‘Wordsmith’ Awards 2015

We can’t move for books here in Fellicionado Heights. The wife’s doing her nut and wants them gone. I steadfastly refuse and so until she comes round to my way of thinking she’ll be in the garden getting her head…
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If you’re ever in Oxford……..

An old friend of mine (we got history) has been travelling the globe for the past few years. She writes. She travels. She ‘travel-writes’. Recently her travelling has taken her back to sunny ol’England and our fair isles in general.…
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Fellrunning: A Punter’s Guide No. 4 – Carnethy 5

No getting in Fin's way!
Right, you’ve read the shite about the relays but that’s not gonna be a flash in the pan. Oh no. There’s going to be a heck of a lot to get through this year, it’s only January after all and…
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Jet Lag

Harry bloody Wong....sit down Bruce Lee, sit down
So…….jet lag sucks. My body is seeing me off massively. It’s trying to tell me it’s 11am and to ‘stop being a lazy shit’. In reality it’s 3am and by accepted social norms I’m not classified as an effective human…
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Fellrunning: A Punter’s Guide No. 2 – The Bob Graham Round

No, that's not Lingmoor behind him....
I was reminded today, whilst Instagram stalking a certain Mr. Rickey Gates, an American man – or ‘Ameriman’ if you will – of the Bob Graham Round (BGR in hip parlance) and, more specifically, Billy Bland’s frankly ridiculous record. I…
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Fellrunning: A Punter’s Guide No. 1 – Langdale Horseshoe

Ambleside's finest...him wit crazy name
The first in a new series of posts where I look at various races around the fell running calendar, make up spurious and illogical data, which I then present as historical fact, in order to support outlandish conclusions and finally…
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