(Photo: Catherine Opie/NY Times) Diana Nyad has her autobiography out very soon. If you’ve never heard of her, I’m not surprised. At 64 she is the only person to ever swim the 110 miles from Cuba to Florida. That’s more than 5 times the Channel. 53 hours without sleeping or stopping. But where the Channel […]
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I was in town yesterday and saw a young lady with the Red Bull logo tattooed on the base of her neck. Huge, it was. I know it gives you wings, and is all about pushing the boundaries and being extreme and all that but isn’t doing that like getting Coca Cola tattooed on you?
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There was a comment raising this very question on the good old Facebook, where I have been telling all and sundry about this FREE mental fitness trial for outdoor fellows … All ye who love getting out and about, maybe in a boat, maybe on wheels, maybe on some kind of slidey planks, maybe just
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Your life is your life. You alone can live it. You alone know how to live it. No one else can tell you how – I certainly can’t. I can try and support you in living the life you want.
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The reason I started working on “mental fitness” was because of the outdoors. Being out on a river or up a mountain gave me the ability to be completely present. I could taste the sense of presence, of flow and the zone, leaving the humdrum behind. With my friends, laughing and shouting, focused and dedicated,
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So the wife and I are on holiday – wandering around Nice, France – and we came across an old mosaic – two dolphins with soldiers on their backs. If that’s not badass I don’t know what is. Riding your personal dolphin into battle would be quite something. And I know I’d run a mile
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I’m in Nice, France of all places. My wife’s brother lives here so we’re paying him a little visit. It’s a world apart from the mean streets of the Yorkshire Dales where I live. But I’ll cope. Just sitting in the sun waiting for the coffee to be ready. Nice way to start a morning,
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You know the Zone, you know it well. The reason you do the things you love is because it brings you there. You forget your worries for a while and you settle into a state of heightened perception. Where everything comes alive. The beauty of nature sparkles. The body moves fluidly, everything is timed perfectly.
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I have the privilege to be surrounded by some amazing people. Some of them I see every morning for coffee, some of them I’ve never met – they are their words on a screen. Nonetheless they never fail to inspire me. The one thing they have in common is that they don’t let their heads
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Press Release: Local monk, meditation teacher, and Armed Forces mental skills trainer Arjuna Ishaya has just announced that he is looking for 8-10 male outdoor aficionados to test a revolutionary new meditation based “mental fitness” programme to be held in central Darlington over five weeks beginning early August. In exchange for these volunteers’ time, effort