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Olympic Legacy

July 30, 2012

People talk a lot about legacy when they talk about the Olympic Games. In London’s case, the word has never been far from the spotlight – and casting a glance over the previous two host cities can be telling in determining what that legacy for London might be. Athens has not fared well. Amidst the […]

Novel gym membership idea from Waitrose in disguise?

August 26, 2009

Can’t help but wonder if tricks are being missed all over the developed world. People are spending large amounts of pounds (£££) to divest themselves of large amounts of pounds (lbs), largely because they’ve spent too many of the former on eating too many of the latter in the first place. The easy answer is not […]

Eddie Iz Running

August 20, 2009

And also a bit of a nutter give what he’s trying to do! Puts my 500km into the shade rather… For those of you who don’t know, he’s trying to run from London to Cardiff to Belfast to Edinburgh to London – 30 miles a day, one day off every seven – and he’s not […]

Keep on movin’

August 14, 2009

It’s approaching the mid-point of my Walking August and an update is well overdue, so here goes. Weekend One The first weekend started inauspiciously since I was out with family on both days and managed an average of just 10,859 steps per day (I’m using a Fitbug to monitor steps so my 500km translates into […]

August

August 2, 2009

adj. inspiring reverence and admiration. Well, I don’t know about that but I am setting myself a challenge for the month that will at least be worth something, I hope. I’m going to walk. Not the prodigious distances that earned Sir Ian his knighthood, the cause of constant merriment in the Sky commentary box (his […]