Category: fitness
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Endurance events and childbirth is the same, here is why!
Seriously what makes a man or woman wake up one day and go “Yes” an ironman is for me! It doesn’t have to be an Ironman event it could be a marathon, half marathon, Sparta anything really… Also why is the biggest age group that takes part in this 30-40 years of age? Well I…
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Words that can turn a man cold!
The following words will normally fill a man with dread – “Honey can we try the sustainable food restaurant on Sunday evening” “Sustainable food”? I ask, “Yes” she said – it serves mainly vegetarian dishes, you eat off wheat based cutlery, oh and it does a great Lionfish curry. It must have been a weak…
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Things you can learn at a finish Line
You just have to believe! No I don’t mean in the biblical sense, I mean you just have to believe in yourself and believe that you can! Yeah, yeah, yeah why are you telling me this I’ve heard this all before… well you perhaps have but I bet you haven’t done this… I would like…
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Remember the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover”…
I watched a good friend of mine cross the Ironman finish line after 15 hours of pain and fatigue. A friend who only 12 months ago tore his patella tendon requiring surgery. He never thought he would do it. To be honest a few of us who have trained with him also had doubts as…
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The Chicago Marathon 2015 – Part 2 of the 640 Challenge – An introspective
It was dark, somewhere in the darkness an owl hooted, ok it was not an owl but the alarm clock in our hotel room going off at 5am! Actually 5am is probably a lay in compared to the 4am training runs, but sh!t the day was finally here! We had survived training injury free (Well…
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Small goals can turn into big things – 640 Challenge!
A real life account about how an overweight chap simply changed his lifestyle which resulted in raising thousands for charity whilst getting fitter.
Anything Over Ice 