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A swampy blog of uncertainty, mud and mirth. Weaved together with lyrical reeds of true stories and imagined happenings. What is, may not. What's not, may be. Don't fall in.

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Twin projects

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It's been about 6 months since my last blog, which really reflects what has been a pretty intense period, where my school moved campus, ...

Monday, April 14, 2025

Christchurch Marathon Race Report

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Just after 9:35am on Sunday morning, I had the realisation that I was not in fact going to achieve my stated goal for the Christchurch Marat...

Sunday, April 06, 2025

Breaking through

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Last blog I talked about some of my self-doubts in my recent running performances. Most of this was fuelled by knowledge that I was training...

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Consistency

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Everyone who knows me reasonably well knows I'm a runner. Not all know that I only started really trying to be a regular runner in 2016 ...

Monday, December 23, 2024

Life and death of the villages

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My return to the Waangleng village coincided with a ritual known as Daazaai. This is a Daoist ritual that summons the soul of the deceased, ...

Sunday, December 08, 2024

End of the season

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Turning off Mangatāwhiri Road into Rāhui Te Kiri reserve, I ran to the end of my 2024 campaign running. The final dash was along a particula...

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Running that final straight

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Today I ran more in 2024 than I did in the whole of 2023, which had been my biggest year of running. With another couple of reasonable weeks...

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