Last Thursday, on a cloudy morning, we went on our first proper cycling adventure in a long time.

Just last week I wrote how we had left Thursdays free from work until 4PM so that we could go on ‘workday adventures’ - but that we hadn’t done one yet.
This past Thursday we did, and we had a great time.

One thing I’ve been considering lately is whether I should increase my work hours or not. The concept of work-life balance is popular among employees, but it’s quite a different thing when you are self-employed and have to choose how much and what kind of work to take - as it’s easy to do too much and then end up burnt-out.

Another thing we saw on ‘A new life in the sun - Where are they now’ is how some of the more entrepreneurial people were able to expand their businesses by taking on more projects as their initial idea succeeded - for example, a couple invested the money they earned with their restaurant by buying a condo to renovate it and rent it.

We watched a few episodes of ‘A new place in the sun - Where are they now’ while in the UK, resting on the couch after a day of walking on the Dales Way. I like this show as we too have a dream of having a place of our own at some point, somewhere more rural than where we live and have grown up in - and to have some sort of passive (as well as active) income from it.

It’s a strange feeling - for the last few days our routine has been to wake up, walk and find spots to take a break and eat something while going to the next step of the journey, which we found to be rather freeing: the task was clear, the reward immediate, the end in sight - not something that happens very often in regular life.

I once heard in a podcast by the Jack Mountain Bushcraft school the above quote - ‘crafting is cumulative’ - meaning that the more you do it, the better you become at it.

I believe there are seasons and phases in one’s training, and one should not deny this and fixate on just one modality when its timing is over [at least for the moment]. I used to be very much into strength training, and built a DIY wooden power rack to train heavy squats, bench presses and rack pulls - but now that phase is over

I’ve had a 40kg kettlebell for almost 10 years now, which I bought for swings and to use for weighted chin ups and dips. At the gym I mainly have students use it for deadlifts, as I find KB deadlifts are very handy for group classes. So, around this time last year I took advantage of a sudden discount and bought 3 other big kettlebells - a 48, a 56 and a 68 - to increase the progressive overload potential

I wanted to do one last trail running adventure before the summer travels, but we couldn't find a suitable race - they were either too long or too short - so we picked a track with the characteristics we wanted from a book I stumbled upon at the library.

I was thinking yesterday how weird it is that most ads I see in relation to physical training or nutrition are about promising fast results…

I had just finished teaching a private session when my student told me this sentence..

About a month ago I was reading about training for adventure racing, and I saw someone mention that it’s much easier if you have an ‘adventure lifestyle’…

I read this quote in Jonathan Goodsman’s newsletter and I really like it, as it sums up nicely the way I’m thinking about my social media accounts and this website

The daily commute to one’s workplace can be a dreaded moment - but it does not need to be. Now that the weather is getting better, I am enjoying going by bike to the physio clinic I teach at twice a week …

If you’ve never heard of Alastair Humphreys, check him out. He’s an adventurer that came up with / popularized a number of interesting concepts, and one of my favourite goes by the name of ‘the doorstep mile’ …

As I mentioned a few posts ago, we bought two new bikes..