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SwissAlpine 2016: All in the mind?

August 31st 2016
So what have we learnt from SwissAlpine 2016? 1. That you get no respect whatsoever for running a 30 km trail race through the Alps when there’s a 78 km race happening at the same time. 2. Nearly everyone else here were blokes older than me or female because apparently they are the only people with sufficient pain threshold to do it. 3. Everything in Switzerland is eithe ... read more

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When I started this blog in 2007, it was more of a highlights package of trips generally focusing on one place or aspect. My rule had been one blog per country unless I lived there, but I eventually realised that fewer blogs were appearing. Having got around quite a bit, I'm now revisiting many countries. It's getting trickier to get to completely new countries so I might break that rule on occasion. The PhD fortunately didn't curtail travelling with research in sub-Saharan Africa and India as well as the chance to attend conferences with a sneaky bit of travelling tacked on before or after th... full info

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