A long time ago (actually my first office job) I had a manager who used swearing as punctuation. She did a presentation to our IT contractors when they were doing design work to replace a key system, and was unsurprisingly asked not to swear by senior managers. She made it all the way to the...
Author: Duncan Verel
Official BBRC Book Club Monthly Book Review
As the professional shit-stirrer who started all these book club shenanigans, D. H. Laurence Baldwin (not pictured) has finally done something useful with his evil genius and produced a totally relevant and insightful book review. Enjoy! Book Review: "Feed Zone Portables" Every now and again these lovely looking jam rice cakes pop up tagged with #feedzoneportables...
A Year In The Making, FKT For The Taking…?
Richard Reynolds takes on the Greensand Ridge Walk Over a year ago - when FKTs were becoming a thing I spotted the route that no one else had claimed - the 64km (40mile) Greensand Ridge Walk. Annoyingly, 12 months on I've finally managed to get out onto the Greensand Ridge Walk - but not before two...
A lesson in timed poos
BBRC's resident fecalpheliac Ross Hay's account of his 'backyard movements'.... The 25th June saw me at the starting line of my first Backyard Ultra at Witikon in Zurich. I had totally nailed the preparation for this; a good training block, permanent marker on my arm with differing pace times to complete each loop, ziplock bags...
There’s No Place Like Holmes
David Holmes gives us the low-down on his GB Ultra Scotland 50 The first race for 15 months after all the COVID delays was an interesting one which I began with some trepidation after very little training since the pandemic started….the occasional decent plod around the Pentlands but not a 50 miler. The race was...
Run to the Sea – Get some FYBs
Epic BBRC member and stalwart club challenge participant Lorraine Cromwell recently completed her first ultra with the 50k Race to the Sea. It sounds like there was some auditory Do-Badder support along the way Congratulations Lorraine - a big BBRC smile on your face as always.
FB Live tonight
FB LIVE - Tonight (1st June) @ 8:30pm I’ll be speaking to club member Sean Jordan who has just completed 10 marathons in 10 days! Please pop in to hear about such an amazing achievement! Log in to FB and join the Private Club Group. Sorry, but it's members only. Join us here
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Queen Run
We are not the champions Our last Club Challenge for April made it temporarily acceptable to come out and say "I want to ride my bicycle". Yes, the hotly anticipated Queen Run saw Do-Badders performing acts of madness, ticking off references to Queen during a run. The brief: - Find / do as many...
Love Is All Around
Nikki Love is a BBRC club member and certified Do-Badder, so much so that she has her own podcast episode about running around Ireland (yes, there's a podcast 🙄, and it's ep. 174) and in the last few days she has kicked off another immense challenge: 100 marathons in 100 days. Nikki has a message...