Before the age of eleven I cycled a lot with my Dad. Mum was unimpressed. “How far are you taking that boy?” He’d answer: “Never more than 11km.” It wasn’t really a lie. In later years retracing the routes I can confirm we had not been further than 11km in a straight line from home […]
The endless road led me back to the Grip Factory for a steel bending masterclass. Multi time world record holder and organiser David Horne is legendary in the world of grip and is dedicated to keeping alive strength traditions from an age some have forgotten existed. In the UK (and maybe many other places) strongmen […]
One of the weekly sessions I used to do through the winter several years ago involved very little effort. I was training to swim the English Channel and every Wednesday evening I would make a simple immersion on a boat slipway of a lake. My friends and I would sit or stand in the dark, […]
Working alone on the deer paths managing a woodland provides plenty of thinking time. I made my rounds last week checking for storm damage & reflected I had started managing the site a decade ago. I’d achieved a lot of ambitions & didn’t have anything pressing on the horizon. As Louie Simmons said in one […]
