life

Why I blog, contextualised by my life over the past six months.

2023 in review. Running (Manchester, NYC Marathon), Triathlon (Challenge Roth), travels, work and life.

I went to Uganda to catch up with an old friend and get some headspace. This is my travel log.

2022 in review. Running (Comrades, Chicago Marathon), travels, work and life.

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" Blaise Pascal There is a general sentiment that people don't talk about mental health. I have been living with a number of mental health issues for a

My thoughts on the present state of the world whilst in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis so that when things are better I can look back and understand how I felt.

A look at my 2019 in review. Running, business, and personal adventures. Including the London Marathon, Comrades, Wicked, parkrun, and lots of tasty food.

A look at the meaning behind my new Gohan chest tattoo by Isnard Barbosa.

I received an interesting link in my inbox this morning to a HN post entitled 'What was the best decision you made in your career?' It contained so many pearls of wisdom that I had to write a blog post. In the time in took me to write

This is a blog post that wrote itself. School When I was 11 my parents sent me to boarding school. This is to this day the most contentious issue in my relationship with my parents. Well.. I lie. At this point in time I think we have agreed to disagree

I was just reading through a diary I wrote about a decade ago when I went travelling. Whilst I remember one or two explicit events, the majority of the content was seemingly completely new to me. For example. I lost my wallet after a drunken night out in Hong Kong.

I really like tattoos. I have a few. Any tattoo owner has probably experienced the "What does it mean?" question. My previous tattoos all have very personal meanings, and I have always been reluctant to explain the 'meaning' behind them. The reason being that someone else