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Exercise – CBA or JDI?
Hello again. I hope everyone reading this, had a great time with their loved ones, or found their peace in solitude or enjoyed helping others if they had to work that day! Christmastime this year has been a bit of a funny one for me. This year I decided to NOT run away and actually […] More
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in Exercise, Nature, Routines, Uncategorized
White Space is Write Space
For the past two years I’ve been using a habit tracker. It consists of 20 individual items rated at half a point each to achieve a utopian maximum score of 10. To start with, I was very very strict with it and really paid close attention to getting as high a score as possible. Why? […] More
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A Lesson from Ronaldo : Do the Opposite or at Least do Something!
A couple of lessons learnt from this weekend. One – a repeated lesson that I know well to be true, but I’d like to share them with you all again today. After my unscheduled trip to America for my daughters wedding in Washington State, I got back late on Thursday night after over a full […] More
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19 Hours of Solitude and I Saw the Light!
What do you do when you decide you just want to switch off, cop out, drop off (from society) and just get away from having to ‘do things’ and all the rest. Plus just have some time to yourself? Well for most normal people that probably constitutes any number of things. Maybe going for a […] More
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Nice walk that becomes (yet another!) Epic!
I really don’t know how I seem to manage this, but practically every walk I do in the fells, ends up as a ‘madmicky adventure’. Yesterday was Fell walk Tuesday. A day when, as the title suggests, I aim to get a weekly fell walk under the belt. I had also decided to have a […] More
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Finding Energy I Never Knew I Had
Numbers – they can mean a lot. Or nothing at all. 49…. getting on a bit. Gerrin auld. Or – 49 years young!? wee story for ya. 36 hours in my life …Read on … Friday 1400 My two pals, Andy & Colette are in the area and we walk up Dufton Pike (4.5 mile) […] More
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12 Mini Musings (OK – I only had time for 10!)
Its been a busy few weeks. Work Work Work. But I knew this, expected it. In order to achieve big things, you need to be prepared to put in big effort. Writing regularly has suffered as a result. But here’s a quick 12 mins with 12 little commentaries, notes and observations 1 – The coaching […] More
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Non-negotiables, Parkrun & Self-coaching.
When I started my massage business in 2012 I decided joining a running club (Heaton Harriers) would be a great way to get new clients. What I never expected was, I started just enjoying running. Very soon after I started the free to enter, weekly 5K Parkruns that many of us are familiar with. That […] More
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Night Vision
Almost two days in the house, mainly because I have been creating this site, saw me head out to get some shopping late last night. I hadn’t done any form of exercise all day neither. Last year I developed a 20-point daily checklist/routine. Up at 6, bed at 11, stretch daily etc etc. One of […] More