House of the Dragon - Episode 1
Someone once said, that if you stop challenging yourself you stop growing? Who knows? Two years ago, enticed by the advertising as the...
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Duncan
- Jul 22, 2021
- 2 min
Dot Watching...
Doesn't everybody have an Aunty Dot or at the very least know an Aunty Dot? I bet she got invited to the wedding? Most month's on waking...
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Duncan
- Jul 21, 2021
- 4 min
Weird & Wonderful
Many years ago, when running became a ‘thing’ for me, I decided to try and raise funds for Brathay Trust through (in part) writing this...
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Duncan
- May 27, 2021
- 8 min
Why is the anagram ...
Diary Day 10 of the Brathay 10in10 (ten marathons in 10 days).
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Duncan
- May 23, 2021
- 6 min
Another P is for…
The penultimate day! Pensive, almost proud, perhaps it's still possible, but, the pain! The quad has been rock-taped over night, I've...
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Duncan
- May 20, 2021
- 5 min
I is for ...
Diary entry - day 7 of the Brathay 10 in 10 2021
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Duncan
- May 19, 2021
- 3 min
Another S is for...
STEPS! It's time to begin, now count it in, 5, 6, 7, 8. No, no, no! Not those Steps. Hopefully, the thirteen colleagues I'm sharing...
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Duncan
- May 15, 2021
- 4 min
P is for ...
When I decided to re-enter the 10in10, I was working full time as a self employed driving instructor. One of the ideas I had when I was...
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Duncan
- May 15, 2021
- 4 min
H is for ...
Hello? Hope? Here again? Health? Help? Decent Human? You choose ... At Brathay we know everyone has the capacity to do extraordinary...
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Duncan
- Nov 19, 2019
- 6 min
You're Not All That
Yet another example of how not to prepare for or even run a marathon. Sometimes, I shake my head and wonder when will I ever learn? ...
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Duncan
- Nov 14, 2019
- 6 min
The Beauty and the Beastly
I'm famous again? Or rather not. You, could tell it was my ugly mug (at a distance) on BBC Wales. Able to find myself just because of...
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Duncan
- Sep 7, 2019
- 3 min
A Game of Cat and Mouse
Friday evenings, simply the best night of the week. A child of the 70s, the start of the weekend is vaguely remembered as being spent at...
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Duncan
- Sep 5, 2019
- 3 min
Cat Fight!
A day or two ago, I nearly peed the bed. Half dozing off, a friend messaged me. I was at the point just at the edge of the cliff where...
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Duncan
- Sep 1, 2019
- 3 min
Box to Box
Starting to feel like I've missed out. Last year about this time I was cock-a-hoop that I'd been accepted for another stab at the...
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Duncan
- Aug 31, 2019
- 6 min
Ten Circles of (My Own Personal) Hell - one added for luck
Now for some I appreciate this might be their idea of an idyllic day out but this is my little story about a day out on the bike. It’s...
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Duncan
- Jun 16, 2019
- 3 min
Chomp!
It's been a month since the finish of the Brathay Ten in Ten. My mood has not abated, the sun is still shining a little brighter than...
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Duncan
- May 17, 2019
- 4 min
Don't Pay the Ferryman
26.2 miles. One a day. Every day for ten days. Am I having too much fun? Am I making it sound like it's easy? If you dare to respond...
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Duncan
- May 10, 2019
- 6 min
A Brathay Baptism
In the name of the father, son... Bathed in sunshine we were last year, even in 2017 when I did the Windermere Marathon the weather was...
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Duncan
- May 9, 2019
- 5 min
A Singleton Life Calling
Hate it! Left to my own devices I eat Pot Noodles, fish fingers or bacon butties, chocolate (lots of it and especially Snickers or...
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Duncan
- May 4, 2019
- 4 min
There's No Papering Over The Cracks
When I purchased my house two years ago, I knew that regardless of how well it suited me, I needed to change it. My mortgage company...
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