There's been plenty of questions in the wake of the Australian cricket team's ball tampering incident. But are they right ones? Or at least the most important ones? I have a few of my own, and here they are: Why is everyone so shocked that good people make mistakes? (Have you never made a terrible [...]
There’s been so much said about the Australian Cricket Team cheating incident, I’m loathe to jump on the bandwagon and add my two cents worth. So instead of talking about cheating, I’d like to talk about role models. And our own expectations. It makes perfect sense to me that we might look at someone who [...]
We've all heard about how much of an issue single use plastic in particular is in terms of litter and the environment. But I think we're fairly well 'insulated' from the impacts of it in places like Australia where we clean it up pretty well, and hide it away from sight. So it's easy to [...]
OK, so I’ll admit the quality of the bling on offer plays a part in helping me decide what running/adventure race events I’ll enter these days. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t do an event I’m completely uninterested in just because it has good bling. But, ah, actually, scratch that, maybe I might. You know, [...]
Here's to the misfits. The loners and the weirdos. Because as difficult as it is at times for those who don't fit into the world the way it is, it's those people we rely on to make it different. Better. So if you don't feel like you fit or belong, congratulations. Seriously. And if you're [...]
A few years back I hurt my ankle quite badly and couldn’t run for a while. For me personally, running doesn’t just stop me becoming one of those people who have to be craned out of their house, it also keeps me my version of sane. Which, to be fair, is quite a long way [...]
