Tag: Motivation
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Female Pioneers, Natural Explorers and Ultra-Marathon Food
Here’s your monthly half dozen dose of articles that I’ve read and enjoyed. It includes a history of female mountaineering, a debate about the foods people eat whilst running, and a bad review of a good book amongst other things. I make a similar list each month. Browse the old and best in the Six…
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Masochism?
Mine and Laura’s different reactions to the hardships in Patagonia made me wonder if I was some kind of masochist… After the tough two days at the start of our trip, we resolved that no subsequent days should be as long. Well, they may have been reduced in length between Chalten and Tres Lagos but…
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400 Metres
This is a piece I wrote after our route in South America joined a popular trail: Because our route today took in part of a relatively popular walk, we have the luxury of an information sheet containing times, distances, descriptions and, notably, an ascent profile. This showed a steep 400-metre ascent over a short distance.…
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National Freelancers Day 2011
Today is National Freelancers Day. As someone who probably falls under this category, here are a few articles I’ve written around the subject of working for yourself… 10 things I’ve started doing since going freelance The dishwasher dash (and 9 other ways I squeeze exercise into my working day) 7 things that I like about…
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Expedition Planning Seminar this weekend
Starting this evening is my favourite event of the expedition calender: Explore at the Royal Geographical Society. I have been a few times before, always learnt stuff and, more recently, tried to contribute. It is such a great place to get enthused about expeditions and a fairly unique opportunity to pick the brains of some…
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Get Away, Get Perspective
Having recently returned from some time abroad, I found myself tackling my daily routines with renewed vigour and approaching my life plans with a new sense of focus. I am sure I am not alone in this. One of the primary reasons people go on holiday is to get away from everything and get some…
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Don’t Cycle Lands End To John O’Groats
There are endless possibilities for original adventurous undertakings across the UK and around the world. Don’t just cycle Lands End to John O’Groats by default. Let me start by saying that I have no problem with “LEJOG”, as it’s known. I would love to make the trip – be it by bicycle, on foot or…
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Microadventure Competition
An extra blog post this week to let you know about a great competition aimed at getting more people outside having adventures. And before you switch off, they’re supposed to start and finish at your front door and needn’t last more than 24 hours so I think that counts most people in. I quote the…
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Start!
If you want to quit your job and go cycling but it all seems too daunting then first buy a bike, book a plane ticket or draft your resignation letter. If you want to get sponsorship for your expedition but don’t know how to go about it then email a company and ask for their…
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Expeditions Are No Better Than Offices
It is so easy to set up a website, call yourself an adventurer and then proceed to tell everyone that they are wasting their lives sat in offices when they could be out on expeditions all the time instead. Such a crude point is patronising in the extreme and an over simplified idealism at best.…
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Why Do Things The Hard Way?
Expeditions in the twenty first century are rarely necessary. In fact, the vast majority of those conducted last century weren’t born of an actual need to accomplish anything either. Not like the old days where crossing a mountain range or sea might have been the only way to survive. In that sense, it seems fair…