Lets be brutally honest with ourselves for a moment, sure, we live longer and longer and are more and more capable as we age these days but….. getting old sucks! Remember when you were 18-19 and you could go for a run, barely sweat, not think about nutrition and most importantly, wake up the next… Read More The road to recovery
Confusing title? if you know, you know but if you don’t, let me explain a little so that you can enjoy the post as a little source of new information… UTMB, this is the “ultra trail Mont Blanc” an annual race that circumnavigates the highest peak in Western Europe, more than just a race, its… Read More UTMB prep
Process, principle, same deal right? no, you know they’re not, stop being lazy, take your lecture from a partially educated know-it-all and read this post to learn more about something you thought you never needed to know about! Lets start by identifying the target audience for this dreck lecture, are you a person? do you… Read More The big picture.
A subtle reminder that even though the weather may be crappy where you are, conditions might be less conducive to keeping fit, healthy and motivated, continue to do something, ANYTHING because in the spring time, you will be one more winter older and if you haven’t kept up a little base line fitness, you will… Read More Gentle reminder
Are you thinking about it? you kind of know not to eh but you don’t want to lose your place, you might not be able to keep progressing but you REALLY don’t wish to slip back. Have a read through some of my thoughts, if you don’t like them, too bad, hopefully though you can… Read More Training through an injury…
OK, so, I love training, I LOVE living in the alps, I love the prospect (if not always the reality) of entering running races but I took my annual pilgrimage back to my home planet (near Nottingham in the middle of the UK) for a month to see family and take care of some of… Read More gimme a break…
Interesting topic, I speak to friends and family all the time, I like to hear about people’s ambitions and goals, inevitably, we come to a pinch point where we discuss the hard to answer “what’s stopping you?” question, for sure, everyone is different and even the same person can have different blocks on achieving the… Read More What’s stopping you?
We are all human, we all interact with other people, whether that’s online or in real life. Most of those interactions pass off without any animosity or ill-intent, genuinely MOST do right? but what about those interactions we have where we find ourselves snapping at the other person, or arguing over something we maybe don’t… Read More Conversational bully
So I found this picture below online, on Facebook and as you may imagine, the scorn people are laying down for this guy was pretty fiery! I’m not a fan of shaming people for dumb things, as they go, this is pretty dumb but I wanted to take the picture, show it, see what people… Read More Learning points…
What is it? Dynafit Radical Pro ski touring/mountaineering boot. Whats the price and where to buy? €650, some discounts are available online, Dynafit website or many online retailers What did I buy them for? One stop ski boot, I wanted a single boot that would be good for alpine skiing, ski touring, comfortable, light, easy… Read More Dynafit Radical Pro – review
OK, the runners enigma, how the hell am I supposed to eat when I run? this is some grade-A bullshit trick that our body is pulling on us…. To start, I’m not discriminating but really, this is for people running slightly longer distances, if you’re struggling to eat a mars bar whilst running for a… Read More Eating and running
Time for one of my half arsed lectures folks… going out into the wild, hills, mountains, rivers etc is risky but partly that’s why we do it right? I wrote this piece with the intention of helping split the risks we take into manageable, understandable chunks to try and help keeping things in perspective and… Read More Active risk, latent risk
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