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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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 ti...
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 at...
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...
I don’t really do this very often, but when I’ve gone to the trouble of building myself a spreadsheet that lets me compare what I’ve planned to do against what I’ve done, I may aswell have a butchers and see what nuggets I can extract:
Total distance r...
Much as us Brits love a good moan about the weather, we ain't doing too bad really. I can tell.
One way I can tell is by the fact that since I moved into my new house I've been commuting for work either by bicycle or on foot every single day that I can...
Work hard, play hard, keep partying like it’s your job....
Great tune 😊. Great timing 😊. Great memories of Rachel Kelly’s rather suggestive and inappropriately erotic dancing, for a work’s night out anyway, in a pair of heels higher than stilts! She...
Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day…
Well how wonderful does it feel to have a warm sun shining down on your back?
I had pencilled in the monthly 10k at Chirk Castle, get out on the trails, but something inside me was stirring. Somethin...
Some days I haven’t slept well the night before.
Some days I’m dehydrated.
Some days I feel lethargic and know I’m far from 100%.
Some days I’ve got a million and one things on my mind.
Some days I haven’t managed to eat properly, or get away from w...
