paulradcliffe.me archive
Category: General Running and/or Fitness
July 11, 2014
Follow Friday: Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
On the links page of this blog, I list a number of webcomics that I follow regularly. Manly Guys Doing Manly Things is one of my favourites, but it doesn’t update very often. Based on the title, you’d imagine it was written/drawn by a hyper macho dude. Surprisingly, it’s authored by a lady, Kelly Turnbull aka Coelasquid. She says thinks that men should be allowed to be manly. And she references all sorts of video games characters from series I love like Dragon Age, Pokemon, Final Fantasy and pokes fun a typical tropes. I shared the link to her comic because of[…continue reading]
July 9, 2014
Vacation Review
So, I was on vacation last week. Yes, really. I had scheduled posts on both my blogs to make it look like I was still around. And kept posting to dailymile and facebook posts continued uninterrupted. When I told people I was going on vacation, their immediate follow-up question was: “What race am I doing?”. I suppose most of my previous vacations have been combined with races. For the first time in a while, I had a genuine vacation. Ironically, one of the first things I did on vacation was buy new shoes. I didn’t plan to buy them, but I[…continue reading]
June 30, 2014
Motivation Monday: Reality Check
I’m essentially reblogging this from Remy’s World. I was critical of a Jillian Micheal’s quote in a Monday Motivation post from a couple of weeks ago. I was glad to see Mark Remy rebutt this ‘exercise until you puke, faint or die.’ It’s very tempting to push to the point where you risk serious injury. Fight hard, but it’s important to know when to teak a break too.
