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Mountain climbed
A month ago I arrived home from trip of a lifetime. I accompanied my Dad on a cycling trip to Provence, to help him celebrate his 60th birthday by realising a lifelong dream to ride up Mont Ventoux....
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Ultra running, Ultra recovering
This is Lossiemouth beach, on the north east coast of Scotland. It was last Sunday, August bank holiday weekend (well, if you’re in England) and as you can see, we had the best of the weather while it...
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Runner restored (temporarily?)
I had my best run in months last night. Just my normal 5km/3 mile route along a tarmac path at the bottom of the Campsie Fells. I can see the hills for the first half a mile and then it’s into the...
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Winter sun
What could be better than a sunset? A sunset on a beach? A sunset on a beach on the west coast of Scotland? A sunset on a beach on the west coast of Scotland a long way north? A sunset on a beach on...
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All is calm – Day 16
I’m just home from work, I feel sick from the bus journey home, I’m tired and I’m just starting to come down with yet another cold. I live by the hills just north of Glasgow so obviously it’s raining...
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Beinn Eighe
It feels like it has been raining for weeks. Christmas is 3 days away and somehow I don’t think it will be a white one. The Scottish word for this weather is dreich, a marvellous word that doesn’t have...
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And…. Action!
Inevitably at the start of the year, we look back on what was, and start to think once again about what might be. 2014 was a pretty transformative year for me. I set myself some monster targets running...
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A pause
I’m flying. I’m out of Clearways and as I come round Clark Curve and onto the Brabham Straight, I wind the revs on and click up the gears, and I’m flying. I crouch as low as I can over the long tank,...
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Press 6 for Ebola
It hadn’t been the best of weeks. Suddenly everything started to catch up with me last weekend and I felt things starting to unravel. Every time I paused for breath there was an email to reply to,...
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A Dozen Days
About this time last year, I went to the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival with a few friends. We were there to see a friend of my friends, Andrew Murray, but had tickets for the whole afternoon...
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A pause
I’m flying. I’m out of Clearways and as I come round Clark Curve and onto the Brabham Straight, I wind the revs on and click up the gears, and I’m flying. I crouch as low as I can over the long tank,...
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Press 6 for Ebola
It hadn’t been the best of weeks. Suddenly everything started to catch up with me last weekend and I felt things starting to unravel. Every time I paused for breath there was an email to reply to,...
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A Dozen Days
About this time last year, I went to the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival with a few friends. We were there to see a friend of my friends, Andrew Murray, but had tickets for the whole afternoon...
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