Hope Mountain Runner Rides Again
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Hope Mountain Runner Rides Again
I thought maybe my running days were done. Turns out they're not.
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... when I saw people posting links on here to blogs they'd written on other platforms, but then, Realbuzz got harder to use, it started flipping photos upside down, and then it filled up with spam.
Somewhere, the culture that made this site so great, ...
Ah, how quickly things can change.
The clocks sprang forward, the sun came out, and in the blink of an eye the world just felt instantly better.
It's been a long drag this last lockdown. We were on special measures here to begin with, then we got stuc...
If there's been one good thing to come out of exercising during this long-winded lockdown we've endured here in North Wales, it has been the discovery of all the little public footpaths we have around us.
It really doesn't matter if we are running on t...
... No-one spoke of a person's weakness as being their Achilles heel.
I very much doubt that flimsy little tendon would be any mother's choice to name their child after either.
Thetis, the boy's mother, tried to make her son immortal by holding him in...
"In Training" I proudly declared in the title of my last post. Seems a long way back now, November of last year.
Within the limitations of how far we're allowed to go, for what feels like an awful long time now here in Wales (we've been under current r...
Yes!
Me!
Actually training!
I don't really do stuff like that me.
What I do is more like rocking up at a nice place I know is going to make me smile, somewhere with a view, somewhere with big sky to watch the buzzards, see some trees, some water, a...
This time, I hope not.
The simple truth is that running has become an increasingly painful thing to do.
The deeper truth is that NOT running is equally an increasingly painful thing to do.
I'm getting older.
The arthritis that found it's way into my...
It's not free. It costs quite a bit to get there and get round it. It just feels like you're free.
Too much to fit into a blog that this website seems to be able to handle, and it's been doing that mad thing of flipping photographs upside-down again.
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Ok, with reference to the title, perhaps one of the good things to come out of the craziness of these last few months is the discovery of "Breaking Bad". I'd heard of it, made my judgements based on what I was told and the way I was told it; "not for me...
Lockdown Syndrome:
It’s a bit like slowtivation really; I’m not sure if it’s a thing, but just because someone else hasn’t decided yet to call it a thing, doesn’t mean it’s not a thing.
Everybody’s suffering it – one way or another.
I’m not really co...
I don’t know if it’s actually a thing – I don’t care – I’m making it a thing.
I suspect many of you will recognise it even before I’ve given definition to the word.
Slowtivation (noun) - a state of mind where internal motivation exists, but is very sl...
My calendar doesn't work like everyone else's 😳.
My mindset certainly doesn't 😂!
I look forward so much to that weekend in Snowdonia, that in many ways, it has sort of become Christmas. My running year builds up towards that, and I have a great time...
It is a journey, a marathon.
No-one really tells you how far.
Nobody really tells you how long its going to take either.
Like all journeys, eventually you reach the end - the finish line.
Or is that the end of it? Does it actually end here, right no...
Eliud Kipchoge - undoubtedly a fine and incredibly talented athete in his own right - he holds the current recognised marathon world record (02:01:39) after all - steps into the history books as the first man to run a marathon in under 2 hours, and I'...
Well, it’s last long run weekend, and peak mileage week for training, and in typical Barber style, your man here’s ****** it up!
Had this vision that if I could arrive at the midpoint of September in decent nick, I could take an easy week, bang in 3 ha...
Whilst some of the folks on this site I have come to count amongst my friends, and equally amongst my heroes, are stepping out there doing battle with ultra-marathon distances the likes of which I cannot (as yet at least) contemplate taking on myself; I...
I’ve done this race and blogged about it twice before;
“I am sat on lush green grass beside a babbling brook, its crystal clear waters, sparkling silver in the sunshine, splash skittishly across the stones. September sunshine, but with a warmth and dep...
I'm going backwards I think.
Not actually going backwards, just writing about the last thing first and the first thing last.
I wasn't really going to write about the last thing at all to begin with but then, on reflection, it seems to have grown more...
We've history, this race and I.
My first experience of it was in 2012. That brilliant, beautiful, bolstering year, when Britain had the Olympic Games.
Even the flame itself had made it to the top of Snowdon. The image of Sir Chris Bonnington, stood me...
Chain Reaction?
Tales of the Unexpected?
Wasn't sure what to call this blog. I guess I could have gone with the title of the main event - The Mynd Drover 20 - but there's more to it than that, it has been a busy running week.
Tuesday night - 5 a-side...
I probably don't need to tell you the naughty little thoughts that went through my head the first time I heard Wednesday described in such a way. I thought my luck was in 😀.
Disappointment quickly followed 😔.
(I was with a rather attractive, very attr...
That thought was a thought that passed through my mind yesterday as I walked the long climb back up Penycloddau.
She’s quite a lump is Penycloddiau. Why do I keep referring to hills and mountains as “she”? Another question that entered my head on th...
Yr Wyddfa I mean.
They come here in their droves. Swarming masses making their bee line for the summit. Because it's there. Because it's accessible. Because there's a train to the top. Because they've heard of it. Because everybody knows somebody that'...
Click, play, listen, read 😄: https://youtu.be/ISWOrI0WaLs
RUN free, as free as the wind blows, as free as the grass grows, run free and follow your heart 😄😄....
Well the old ticker has waited as long as it can wait to get once again up into those mo...
