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Inspired
I'm feeling content today. Nothing that I have to do, nothing that I really want to do, a sort of nirvana plateau I guess. My mood was set by watching the end of the Ironman 2010 championships. In the dark of 11pm Hawaiian time I watched the old, injured and just plain bloody-minded competitors of the race finish in a celebration of 'I can do it' ( Read more... ) -
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Ramblings & the Pope
Feels strange to be sitting on a Saturday morning without thinking about my next week's training plan, no organising 10 hours of exercise. I've actaully lost about 2kg (4.4lbs) of weight recently simply because I no longer have the desire to eat quite like I did. Had what could possiby be the last open water swim on Friday night; was a bit cold, ( Read more... ) -
Ben Nevis Triathlon 1 - 0 Don
I was hoping to write in this space something slightly triumphalist. If I said otherwise i'd be lying. As mentioned before, maybe not explicitly, doing the Big Ben Nevis Triathlon was something i'd pinned quite a lot of my hopes on for the summer. Lots of training and mental energy dedicated to demonstrating to myself that I could do it ( Read more... ) -
Infest retry 3.0
Well now that i'm feeling much better I believe a third attempt at infestive postings is due. I'll skip all the 'oh I was feeling so ill' type junk as you've got the message already...
...Saturday was a riot. Just about everyone who went to infest will now be groaning at the pun but it was almost a literal riot due to the EDL making a special ( Read more... ) -
Good times
Been my second 'stay away due to nasty protesters'* day. On a whim I hired a bicycle from the hub and got the bus down to Glentress. Had a great ride mucking about on the black loop in the rain and rubbishy Scottish weather ( Read more... ) -
Warning, contains humour.
The Edinburgh International Arts Festival. Oh the thoughts that are invoked by an international arts festival. People of all colours and creeds joining together in the streets to create a fusion of cultures, demonstrating the greatest of their lands through theatre, through dance, through wit and all other forms of art ( Read more... ) -
the tri-ing and the doing.
Sometimes it's nice to find a new place to write your jounal, like lying on the floor of the room. I keep getting that feeling I should write about the race but it's so not going to happen any time soon. Perhaps because those 2 hours 58 minutes and a bunch of seconds were filled with a huge amount of nothing and everything. Emotional, zombified, ( Read more... ) -
The sea and me
Somewhere off the shore of Portobello is a pole. You can make it out on a good day, a slender object appearing white to the naked eye. Last night was the night I was going to swim there after a couple of months of saying I would ( Read more... )