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My final prep is coming to an end. All the training and runs over the past 3 years come to a head this Sunday with the CWU race 2021. My stats are impressive (for me anyway😊).   2018 : Running - 44 runs - 58hrs - 569.4km (12 months) - Elevation

So first week recovering from the back strain was agony.  Standing up to work was ok for 15 minutes, sitting down followed that and then the pain kicked in...4 days or working in the house rotating my environment like that. 😒 Finally, I knew I had to get out. So,

It began with a simple thing - packing the car to drive to UK to get ahead of the game for COVID quarantine and hill time for bogs, paths, trails and midges. Disaster struck on the last final piece (no joke) of luggage being pushed into the boot of the

The long 11 week run in to the CWU begins.  I have been taking it easy for the last 10 days, its been busy at work, two days off, so a long weekend and some golf. Tomorrow kicks it off with 40km split into 15-10-15 runs morning, lunchtime and evening.

With a weeks holiday coming to a close, I decided to go for a long run - to check where physical ailments would show up as I extend distance.  This was essentially a road run on paths - all flat. Weather was forecast for cloud and no rain - perfect.

So, once I finished the 150km week, I took a week off.  Not a good idea. First day back after 7 run free days (2 rounds of golf though), I ran 15, 10, 15 on the Monday. Tuesday, I woke up with really heavy legs but managed 15 in the

Reached 150km this week. But its hard at the end.  Legs take about 10 minutes to get going at the beginning of each run.  After that they just get to a pain threshold which is comfortable.  No injuries, no strains, just a steady pace, keeping heartrate around 135-140 if possible

Successfully managed 100km in 5 days,: 4 x 20km (2 x 10km), 1 x 20km Target now is to get to 1150km per week by end March.  To try and ensure no overdoing it (keep average heartrate around 140bpm) the weeks will go like this: w/c 1st - 75km

The Cape Wrath Ultra has, because of indications from England, and no indications from Scotland, been postponed 2 months until the 1st-8th August. I guess we were all expecting it but nevertheless its too far to continue the same build up, but not far enough to slow down the training

CWU update status

This blog/page will document my journey to (of course) completing the Cape Wrath Ultra, 400km over 8 days through the highlands of Scotland. Stay tuned...

I write this 4 months into the largest global crisis that has hit the world in living memory (more than a generation), with lost lives, lost jobs, lost businesses, and the inability (through government intervention) for face to face human interaction (for at least more than 2 at a time)

So you know.  Configuring SMTP for sending emails is a bit tricky with secure connections.  See below for correct config in the config.production.json file: "mail": { "transport": "SMTP", "from": "'Mickey Mouse' xxxxx@probablynotinteresting.com", "options": { "host": "ms.xxx.com", "port": 587, "secureConnection": false, "requiresAuth": true, "tls": { "ciphers": "SSLv3" }, "auth"

Recently I was getting fed up using ISPCONFIG3 for managing my sites. So I opted to go for Plesk. Lots of support, good interface, highly recommended, and supported nodejs for Ghost (uh-oh!) Long story short - took hours to migrate all my webs, databases and settings over to Plesk from