Category: freed
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Essential 20 – Czech
I have recently been taken with the notion, in a twist on the Pareto Principle, that when acquiring a new language or moving to / visiting a new country the greatest value comes from having 20 key survival phrases. Thus, what follows is my Essential 20 phrases with their translations into Czech. Corrections welcome. Hello.…
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Moving On (Up)
Moving on (up) Well, my dear reader(s) this is one them posts you rarely get, that’s actually about my life. The sort of post I feel that I should be writing but never do. So the headline, in case you’ve not heard, is that I’m leaving Hangzhou and moving to Prague. Why? Well, as you…
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The Future Of: Music
The above video (or rather a link to it) turned up in my inbox not so long ago with a message from a rather cynical friend that suggested that it was worth a look. Having watched it I continued and watched a few more of her videos on YouTube before, by this point totally hooked,…
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Feeling Fitter
So since we last spoke the sun span on its axis and arrived back for the 10,958th time at the same point it was at when I entered the world. If you prefer, the earth returned for the 30th time to the point in its orbit of the sun that it was at when I…
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Podrunner
I planned to do a plug for Podrunner Intervals but I’ve just checked and apparently I’ve not blogged about Podrunner, how can this be? Before we start, Podrunner is a podcast. If you don’t know what a podcast is then slap yourself up side the head and then go and read some of these. Podrunner…
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Built to run
A friend has put me on to a couple of New Scientist articles (here and here) that together suggest both that humans have evolved several characteristics that allow humans to run long distances, an ability that separates us from other primates, and that this ability gave early humans and their predecessors an evolutionary boost. The…
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Resolution Run (10k)
Off to a good start on the first day of the New Year with my 300For30 challenge by running a somewhat humbling 10k. I signed up for the Resolution Run a 10k at 11am on New Year’s Day around Newcastle’s Town Moor. I thought it was going to be a fun run, it was in…
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Horrifying and Inspiring
A friend just sent me a link to this which is at once horrifying and inspiring… High school runner breaks leg in meet, crawls to finish anyway.
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Beware Wild Boar Traps
As most of you are aware by now, I’m involved with a running group here in Hangzhou called the Hash House Harriers. So it was that I came to be out in the hills behind Lingyin Temple on my own on Sunday setting a trail that the rest of the group would be following a…
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Phuket
Blog-lag-tastic, we actually got back from Thailand about three weeks ago but here it finally is… It rained a lot the day of the marathon which meant that for the runners it was cooler than it would otherwise have been, very welcome but wet like I’ve never experienced before, not so good. Monsoon season. The…