Musings From a chap who lives on an island
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Get out of your head – Plus IronMan Miami 70.3 Race report :)
Miami 70.3 Ironman, how my head almost stopped me from competing thus never publishing this race report!
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Ironman Racine 70.3 Race report
It was dark, somewhere in the distance an owl hooted. The warm breeze associated with the Cayman climate at this hour was none existent. My eyes were still heavy with sleep having gone through an all day bike mending marathon session the day before. Something that is becoming all too familiar when traveling with…
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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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99% of people who start a marathon finish it and here is why…
I read an article today about an interesting chap called Jesse Itzler who owns one of the world’s largest private Jet companies. A self made man and an obvious grafter with his own cool story. However he talks about a navy seal that he met that taught him the 40% rule. In its simplicity when…
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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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Top 5 tips for organising a HR event (or any other event to be fair)
You ever gone to an event and felt embarrassed for the MC, lights don’t work, mic cuts out, food isn’t ready, the room is boring, a speaker doesn’t show, the content is soooooo boring you want to stick pencils in your eyes. Your daydreaming turns into fantasy and you start making up scenarios in which…
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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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