Author: Richard Ferguson
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Insights from Aconcagua
It feels a little surreal to be sat back at my desk reflecting on what was, without doubt, the adventure of a lifetime (well so far :-) Only 1 week ago I was relaxing in the 30 degree heat of Mendoza with a long lunch and a book, reflecting on the previous 2 weeks trekking…
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Unexpected Events
Well with exactly a week until I fly I am writing this blog post from hospital, fortunately it is not me that has been admitted, but my daughter Alice, admitted yesterday for suspected glandular fever! Luckily the tests were negative, but she has severe tonsillitis and has spent the night at Fairfield Hospital. Four bouts…
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4 Things to Focus on over Christmas
Welcome to the last blog of the year (non Aconcagua related at least), it certainly doesn’t feel like 12 months since I was writing something very similar last year! Year 3 was the year that I tried to work out what I wanted to be when I grow up and as Kili Consulting comes to…
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What to pack?
Under 2 weeks to go :-) OMG!!! It has been a bit of a ‘bitty’ week really – busy, travelling, home to Devon, but got my training done and on-going progress. I have now started to think about how I ‘taper’ – I think that is the technical term – so perhaps the last walk with…
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Having a ‘Team Me’
Another week and another 40 + miles in the bag :-) getting closer! It has been a great week from a training perspective, managed to get 6 sessions done of varying types and feeling really strong as a result. From an emotional perspective it has been a bit of an up and down week. I have…
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Mind over Matter
Another week closer to ‘D’ day :-), only 4 weeks to go and the last email from Adventure Peaks came through this week with all of the final details. Itinerary, flight details, equipment checklists, admin details and medical / emergency insights – all printed out ready for my laser like attention to detail….. think I…
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Will it help me get up the mountain?
So what a week – been at home a little more the last week so pushing hard with training – combining strength and endurance work, with running, with walking up Holcombe Hill carrying extra weight and wearing my big boots! J Over 30 miles in the last week and over 110 miles so far in…
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It is really going to happen!
I often used to think that it would be “good to have had an adventure…. sometime…..in the past!” Well, that desire has caught up with me because in just over 6 weeks I am off to climb Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the world outside the Himalayas at just under 7000 metres high! I am…
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Do you suffer from goal Idiocy?
I am reading an interesting book at the moment called ‘The Antidote’ by Oliver Burkeman, boldly labelled ‘happiness for people who can’t stand positive thinking’ or ‘a bracing detox for the self-help junkie’! I have to confess that it is a challenging read in places, because it offers an alternative perspective on some of the…