The commute
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The commute

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 …

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The doorstep mile
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The doorstep mile

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’ …

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‘Trail running races’ Quest completed
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‘Trail running races’ Quest completed

At the end of 2023, while housesitting in the Dordogne, we set out some goals for 2024, as part of our usual brainstorming on New Year’s Resolutions. One of these was to run 3 trail running races - though, in a way, I didn’t really think I’d actually do them, as I have been thinking about getting back into running for years and never really followed up on it

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‘Dinner with a view’
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‘Dinner with a view’

A subset of hikes I really enjoy is the ‘dinner with a view’ kind. Grab a bunch of friends, some tasty food and head to a peak in time to eat dinner while the sun is setting, to then come back when it’s dark..

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Explore
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Explore

The first word of this blog is ‘explore’ because it is an activity I have always loved - mainly in the virtual world of videogames when I was a child, and now in the real world as an adult.

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Rites of passage
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Rites of passage

It’s been said by many thinkers of this era that our western society’s lack of proper rites of passage is a great detriment to our personal development, that we need to be challenged in physical ways, to ‘reintroduce the metaphorical tigers’ in our lives - and I very much agree with this

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Mat intuition
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Mat intuition

‘Mat intuition’ is a term I’ve seen used to describe that quality of instinctively knowing how to move one’s body in scrambles, how to transition from technique to technique in a fast paced situation, how to improvise and appropriately adapt to the continually changing conditions of a roll.

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