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Exercise
Don’t make it a habit. Make it part of your routine, who you are. When you get up in the morning you have breakfast, you don’t need to think about it. If you don’t view exercise as something that has to be done, instead it’s what you want to do…
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Solstice - chase the moon
The longest day usually entails an east to west chase the sun ride. Or a Solstice century. I’ve done the latter and thought about the former. After doing the Dynwich Dynamo last year a new challenge came to mind. Take advantage of the shortest night of the year. But where…
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Being Present - Doomscrolling
As I sat on a train traveling home I looked around at my fellow passengers. Something they weren’t doing. They all had their heads bowed in reverence to their smartphones Okay; looking around a carriage or staring out of the window as London suburbia flashed past wasn’t the most riveting…
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House of Cards
I often feel my life is like a house of cards. It often feels close to collapse. The foundation or bottom tier is the exercising I do. The next is eating. The top two cards are mental and physical health. I worry that I exercise too much. And what would…
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Sometimes it’s just about me
Talking is important. And I do a lot of it; more than I did a few years ago. But I find that I no longer just talk about what I’m doing, what I’m interested in or plan to do. I think I need to explain. People ask me how I’m…