The only thing worse than no-one reading the shit you write, is finally writing something quite a few people read, and then having to write something after that, knowing it’s gonna be a steaming pile of shit by comparison. Although you’ll have to wait way too many words to see the actual steaming pile of [...]
So the day before I head over to Kangaroo Island for the Marathon, I managed to drop my wallet in the supermarket, double back, and by some miracle of human nature, someone’s handed it in. I don’t take this as a sign not to go or that the marathon is going to go tits up. [...]
I can be a bit dramatic at times, so if you're wondering why I can be sooking about having a fucked up ankle one minute, then running a marathon the next, it'd be a fair question. The 100% honest truth is I DO have a fucked up ankle - ligament damage, joint damage, fracture etc. [...]
What? Me a twitcher? Didn’t see that coming? That’s OK, neither did I. Much like people don't see me coming now my idea of high fashion is dressing like a shrub. And like most things I’ve done in my life, there was no real plan it just sort of… happened. One day you’re a perfectly [...]
A few days ago one of my Insta buddies asked me how they could get into trail running and I thought, well that’d make a good topic for a blog. So here we are. My best advice on how to get into trail running. Tip one: Go find a trail. Run on it. Hey presto, [...]
Want to know how to be a better person? It's actually pretty simple: Shut the fuck up. Seriously. Sometimes being a better human is as simple as shutting the fuck up about stuff you know nothing about. Or even stuff you don't know enough about. Just because you have an opinion, doesn't mean it's any [...]
Decided to sneak in a bit of a bird nerd yesterday in between work stuff. So did a meeting in the morning then headed out north. There'd been a reported sighting of a White Bellied Sea Eagle so went chasing wild gooses. Went to a part of the International Bird Sanctuary, and if ever you [...]
There’s an old joke, (and no, it's not me), which I guess probably isn’t a joke but more of a parable or something, about a guy who keeps praying to god to let him with the lottery so his life will be better. He does this for years and years and one day god [...]
Every year for the last however many years I decide running a half marathon at 6am on Christmas morning is a good idea and every year when I get up at 4am to get ready I think what. the actual. fuck? I promise myself I won't be so stupid to do it again the following [...]
As 2020 comes to a close, I suspect for a lot of us, it’s an opportunity to search for positives in what’s been a fucking dumpster fire of a year. It’ll be easy to get caught up in the social proof that 2020 was a complete write-off, and for you, it may well have been. [...]
