Now What?
Ten Months, Two Marathons, One Big Lift In the ten months between 2 November 2025 and 29 August 2026, I ran my first two marathons and, for good measure, deadlifted a shade over 140 kg, which puts me in the advanced category for my age …
Mental Health Management – How I’m Approaching It
Managing The Whole Human I’ve just returned from the gym. My membership app told me that I’ve been there 187 times in a year. ‘Wow,’ I thought to myself. Then, in my head, I added another one hundred workouts to this number: outdoor running, cycling, …
Do The Work
One Last Blog On Resilience Do the work. That’s been the core mantra for me over the last couple of years. I am going to move my writing on after this post, into a broader look at physical and mental wellness, particularly in the context …
Consistency, Resilience, Results
Positive Mindset My positive mindset powered me to deadlift my body weight for three sets of eight yesterday. So what? It was a significant milestone for me only four months after a serious cycling accident. I was knocked unconscious, and while there was no lasting …
Six Years, No Alcohol
The Last Glass I was travelling back from Sardinia and had a mediocre red wine at the airport. I put the glass down and thought, “That’s it, I’m done.” Since then, it’s been six years, no alcohol. At the time, I didn’t tell anyone. There …
Why Do I Exercise?
Not An Athlete Why do I exercise? Should I not just take it easy at age 67 and kick back and smell the flowers and all those cliches? Let me reveal some profoundly personal stories from my life to explain why exercise has been a …
Contemplating Resilience
What A Year These last few days, I’ve been contemplating resilience. I visited my physiotherapist yesterday, who commented on my remarkable recovery powers. He’s referring to coming back from my serious accident in April. Today, my iPhone shows me a memory from a year ago, …
Seven Times Fall, Eight Times Rise
Nanakorobi Yaoki Seven times fall, eight times rise. I live by it, even now. If I had stayed down every time I had a setback, it would have been a bleak life. I’ve always found a way to rise again. Some would call it stubbornness, …
My Never Ending Journey of Mental Health
It’s been a while since I posted about my mental health. The general direction is good. I learn more about myself and how to manage myself as the years pass. The last ten months have seen me push a couple of notions aside. My never-ending …
The Next Chapter
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes* The next chapter arrived for me last month when I parted ways with my company after 12 years. It wasn’t long after I wrote my last blog post, “Going Through Changes“. I don’t believe in coincidences. I heard someone say that once and adopted …