Sadventure Completed #58: The way...
"Have you seen the way?" I was asked. "Which way?" "It's a film about a man who went for a walk on the Camino de Santiago, you have to...
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Person Irresponsible
- Feb 7, 2020
- 4 min
Sadventure Completed #42 (3): 0 to 50k
The day of dread comes around very fast, especially when one’s training plan has slacked off considerably…aka ‘conserving energy’ which...
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Person Irresponsible
- Jan 12, 2020
- 5 min
PCT #2: Becoming an Equipment Bore
Once one has decided one is going to walk the PCT, or even at the considering-it-stage, one is likely to join up to every Facebook Group...
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Person Irresponsible
- Jan 3, 2020
- 8 min
PCT #1: The bureaucracy expedition...
The stage before the preparation stage is to do all the arduous paperwork tasks, like, for example, actually getting the licence to walk...
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Person Irresponsible
- Dec 20, 2019
- 3 min
Sadventure Completed #42 (2): 0 to 50k...
Thread one: https://www.mlconaquad.com/blog/sadventure-accepted-42-50kms-to-hell I tried very hard to follow a fitness plan but there...
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Person Irresponsible
- Dec 5, 2019
- 10 min
Sadventure Completed #57: Streeeetch.
"Do you do warm up and cool down exercises after each trek?" she asked me as I hobbled around the place following a two-day hike. "No."...
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Person Irresponsible
- Nov 24, 2019
- 4 min
Sadventure Completed #56: Catch and Kill (a book)
By Ronan Farrow. One of those books that is guaranteed to make my blood boil... This book is about the background story of the Harvey...
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Person Irresponsible
- Oct 21, 2019
- 2 min
Sadventure Completed #55: Uphill Folly!
"Walk to the top of the Broadway Tower ,"she commanded. "It's uphill?" "Yes, but if you park at the top, then walk down to the bottom,...
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Person Irresponsible
- Oct 16, 2019
- 2 min
Sadventure Completed #54: Recycling Shakespeare...
I've got a pedal bike. It's at the back of one my sheds. I was meant to sell it on Fleabay when I did my declutter Sadventure because I...
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Person Irresponsible
- Oct 16, 2019
- 7 min
Sadventure Completed #53: The road less travelled (a book)
Having just finished the Salt Path, I was excited to get going on something equally as compelling. Imagine my shock when I discovered The...
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Person Irresponsible
- Oct 16, 2019
- 4 min
Sadventure Completed #52: The Salt Path (a book)
By the time one gets to middle-aged, one has usually already experienced a life-shattering event of some kind. Something that up-ends...
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Person Irresponsible
- Oct 16, 2019
- 1 min
Sadventure Completed #51: Strapping...
Whilst moaning about my painful knee, I was told I should try that psychedelic strapping stuff that athletes use. Kinesiology tape I...
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Person Irresponsible
- Sep 24, 2019
- 3 min
Sadventure Completed #50: Shine bright with Magnesium...
A bit of an odd one, but as ever I do not reason why I must take Magnesium supplements daily for 28 days. It's said that even those...
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Person Irresponsible
- Sep 19, 2019
- 4 min
Sadventure Completed #49: Nordic Waddling...
Well, isn't it just the way. You casually mention that you're training for 0to50k (as you do), and then people chime in with 'Oh, you...
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Person Irresponsible
- Sep 16, 2019
- 2 min
Sadventure Completed #48: GCHQ quandaries...
Great Conundrums Hurry Quickly? Ginormous Confusion Hurts Quietly? Ghostly Catastrophe Halts Quixotically? Apparently, someone out there...
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Person Irresponsible
- Sep 15, 2019
- 1 min
Sadventure Accepted #47: Waxing Lyrical...
"Write and sing your own song." Good grief. Thankfully, I don't have to write a musical composition...I wouldn't have a clue where to...
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Person Irresponsible
- Sep 15, 2019
- 3 min
Sadventure Completed #46: Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Never heard of it. Never heard of him. Quite why he needs to sing is a good enough reason to watch it, I suppose. +++ Oh, joy. Strong...
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Person Irresponsible
- Sep 10, 2019
- 2 min
Sadventure Completed #45: Nauczyć się języka polskiego....
Or in more simple terms: Learn Polish. Thankfully not the whole language: just for a week. At the end of it I may be able to have a...
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Person Irresponsible
- Sep 10, 2019
- 6 min
Sadventure Completed #44: Wild about Wild...
"You've got to watch Wild," she said. "With Reese Witherswatsit," she added. "And then you've got to read the book." "S'okay," I said. ...
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Person Irresponsible
- Sep 4, 2019
- 4 min
Sadventure Completed #43: Forgive, Forget, F-off.
Read 'How can I Forgive You' by Janis Abrahms Spring. Okay then. +++ First impressions are two-fold: blimey she's got a Ph.D, she's gonna...
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