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Painfulness Is Just An Ilusion
By Andy Blackford on 04/09/2003 17:28:56
Vanquishing pain by using only the power of your mind can be the real pain

Life is pain.Life is illusion.Therefore, pain is illusion.It’s simply one of the more irritating consequences of Samsara – the imaginary world in which we’re all condemned to stagger about blindfolded, bumping into imaginary objects, physical

Taxing Relief
By Andy Blackford on 05/09/2003 10:40:13
Losing money to the taxman can be painful, but the alternatives can be downright agony

, but they still hurt like buggery if I so much as get out of bed in a hurry.Not that it’s made much difference to my training, since the Alpine 78K last summer turned my hamstring into a sort of pain-sensitive stalactite. In any case, I’ve joined The Gym. All

A Bi-Psyche Made For Two
By Andy Blackford on 04/09/2003 17:20:05
Your Official Me Observer can provide you with a whole new angle on doing splits

‘could’, because sometimes I’m not sure whether I’m genuinely enjoying something, or whether I’m simply pleased in a selfless sort of way because the OMO seems to be enjoying himself. So being a double act can be a pain. Literally. When I’m running a

Carrion Running
By Andy Blackford on 05/09/2003 14:40:22
While training in the tropics, Andy Blackford discovers a new and unique tool for blocking out the pain

You can tell a lot about a country by the quality of its roadkill. In Britain, for instance, it consists mostly of pheasants – slow, dim birds, imported from China because English aristocrats were too slow and dim to hit anything of local origin. I’ve run in countries where the...

Body of Evidence
By Andy Blackford on 08/09/2003 17:28:35
How much can the human body handle? As little as it can get away with

, the human body is bone-idle. It’s a backsliding waster. For thousands of years, it pretended it couldn’t run 26 miles and 385 yards. “Oh! Oh! Stop! The pain, the pain!” And we believed it. And then we woke up one April morning in the early 1980s and said

Deus Ex Maniac
By Andy Blackford on 09/09/2003 10:38:36
Undergoing a Trans-formation can be a painful process

In my heart of hearts, of course, I know that Seaton wants me dead. I’m not a fool. It hasn’t escaped me that he’s gradually turning the screw – bullying and cajoling me, waving his filthy lucre in my face until, like a donkey pursuing a carrot it will never catch, I am reduced t...

Horse Sense
By Andy Blackford on 04/09/2003 16:39:13
Ever wanted to try horse racing - well now's your chance. But the horse always wins

into the enfolding arms of valleys, impossibly green after the stony austerity of the moor.This is assuming you’re a horse, of course. Humans should avoid it like a plague of Dale Wintons.However, as a born-again-and-again Buddhist, I know that pain is merely a

The Moor The Merrier
By Andy Blackford on 09/09/2003 11:45:05
The madness of adventure racers, as seen through the eyes of an ageing ultrarunner

me for dead. He dropped out at Tor 22, ashen-faced with pain and cursing without prejudice the entire sentient universe. (However in the great tradition of serious traumatic injuries miraculously repairing themselves, he would skip nimbly up

First Of The Summer Whines
By Andy Blackford on 25/07/2004 12:33:00
London's ultrarunners are growing old disgracefully

at the open door. I noticed, for the first time, a peppering of grey about his muzzle. As I limped down the hill, I was overtaken by a pack of athletic snails.Nowadays it takes a good 10 minutes before the sharp pain in my right knee subsides to a dull

Completely Hooked
By Andy Blackford on 20/09/2004 12:41:48
It started off with a few light-hearted jabs, but it looks like I've fallen in punch-drunk love

heavy for my body. Still, I’m sure that once my heart rate drops below 185 and my pectorals come out of spasm and the acute pain from my tennis elbow abates to the point where I can remove the stick from between my teeth, I’ll feel like a million dollars

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