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Tag: Motivation

  • 18 great things that happened on my cycle to work this morning

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    A bus driver took the time to wind down his window and thank me for stopping to let him pull out (and this, the day after I wrote about Bicycle Karma!) I ended up naked but for my socks in the lobby toilets of one of Europe’s largest law firms I watched the sun rise…

  • Consider this your excuse

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    It would be fair to say that I like doing things that other people often consider weird. Taking cold showers, swimming outdoors and dragging tyres spring to mind, as do most of the things on this page. I PULLED TYRES to train for a planned North Pole trip. It’s the standard training method for that…

  • My Subtle Epiphany

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    Eureka moments don’t happen. There’s no such thing as a split-second moment of inspiration or a lightning strike, flash bulb of an idea. At least, not for me. Instead, there’s a kind of slow creeping realisation. A subtle epiphany that strikes with the alacrity of treacle off a spoon. – My train’s due in 8…

  • Say ‘No!’ to negativity – #2 It ain’t all bad

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    What annoys you on a daily basis? Traffic? Missing the bus/train by seconds? Flat tyre? Burning your toast? What a pain in the ass! So what do you do? Clench your fists. Grit your teeth. Curse under your breath (or maybe just curse). Let out an angry sigh of frustration. Sometimes things are just a…

  • Mountains and Mole Hills

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    My legs are pistons, firing repeatedly in a hypnotic cadence, a relentless machine hell bent on speed. Churning the big cog over and over, I’m flying through London at a dangerous rate of knots. The low sunlight reflects off a tower block in the distance, each of its windows flashing bursts of light like the…

  • Cross the street and walk on the other side

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    The aim of this blog entry is to encourage you to explore your local area. I recently moved back to the town in which I grew up. In many ways that could be viewed as a step back, a regression but I’m trying not to see it that way. Instead, I am embracing it. I’ve…

  • Long Summer Days

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    Today we have our first of what I hope will be many guest blogs. And who better to start than Mr Rob Cousins? Rob has run the multi-day Marathon of Britain and the 145-mile Grand Union Canal Race from Birmingham to London amongst other slightly strange endurance events. Rob works as a Personal Trainer in…

  • Motivation (you can help)

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    I recently got back from three weeks in the wilds of the Russian Altai mountains and am immediately faced with a problem: motivation or, rather, a lack of it. It affects everything I do, be it putting my shoes on to go out for a run, opening up a Word document to work on a…

  • 21st Century Altai

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    As a young adventurer, it’s easy to become despondent in the belief that “everything has been done” and that there is nowhere left to explore. At least, that is, without doing something so extreme as to require decades of experience or being extremely dangerous. My friend Nancy and I set about planning our expedition with…

  • Spam Challenge

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    Fancy an adventure but a bit low on pennies? The Spam Challenge is a feature in Adventure Travel magazine which sets your resources for a weekend of fun at £70 and a tin of pork. I’ve just finished a return cycle trip to Amsterdam with just such a tinned product. We went a little over…

  • The common cold and triathlons

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    I was hosted this weekend by my good friend Rob Cousins who features on these pages under the almighty Arch-to-Arc Triathlon. He’s always an inspiration, not just because of the amazing things he puts his body through (photo above taken moments before starting a non-stop 145 mile foot race) but also because of his approach…