#loveparkrun, hate Brexit. Ageing runner, going longer as I get slower.
Stockholm, Sweden
Joined April 2011
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Hating Bazball: it’s a cult
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Ein Meilenstein für parkrun Deutschland ✨
⭐ 637 Helfer*innen (alter Rekord: 626)
⭐ 4.123 Walker*innen, Jogger*innen und Läufer*innen (alter Rekord: 3.450)
⭐ 4.760 Teilnehmende (alter Rekord: 4.076)
#parkrundeutschland #deutschland5000 #5k #einmeilensteinfuerparkrun
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A joyous shout out for @parkrunUK - the most uplifting, accessible, everyone-welcome, non-intimidating, low hassle, free bit of community spirit, encouragement, sociability and exercise that you could wish for. 🧵...
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Tonight we're sharing a very personal and hopefully inspiring story - Samantha's journey to #parkrun.
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NEW: the collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week, a close match for non-Covid excess deaths
Let’s look at how we reach that conclusion, by taking a deep-dive into non-Covid excess mortality and its possible causes
ft.com/content/f36c5daa-9c14…
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Finally we arrive at the desert island that I’ve spent 6 years dragging all of my friends to. It’s been a hell of a journey but we’re here. They look at me expectantly. This was all my idea. I told them it would improve their lives. I frown and say: “So, what do we do now?”
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We’ll do more than encourage them, we will enable them to get to shops, schools and workplaces under their own steam, by providing high quality, safe joined up routes . Looking forward to it.
We’re encouraging more people to cycle and walk through a new Executive Agency body, #ActiveTravel England. 🚴 🚶
@Chris_Boardman will be leading the new body as the first interim national Active Travel Commissioner.
Find out more about our plans here 👉 gov.uk/government/news/olymp…
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Johnson is about a week away from telling Emily Maitlis he is "genetically unable to party"
EXCL: Email obtained by @itvnews proves over 100 staff were invited to drinks party in No 10 garden at height of lockdown to “make the most of the lovely weather”.
We’re told PM and his wife attended, with staff invited to “bring your own booze!”
itv.com/news/2022-01-10/emai…
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This is not an easy message to convey, even to those who have have already accepted that zero-covid was toast. Essentially everyone will eventually get infected by SARS-CoV-2 in the near future, and likely more than once in their lifetime.
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Brexit discredited. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. As the damage to trade becomes clearer, an analysis of the strange case of Thatcherite Brexiters and the incoherent post-Brexit strategy their misunderstandings of markets and regulation have led to: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot…
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Sammanfattning: 45,000 personer får samlas i Tele2 Arena för en Elton John konsert, men Elton John får inte släppas in i landet pga han är britt.
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People who the UK will let in without quarantining:
1) Italians who want to watch football.
2) Brits returning from a fortnight in Shagaluf.
People the UK refuses to admit w/o quarantine:
1) Fully vaccinated Brits living in the EU who haven’t seen their families for a year.
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Time for some midweek positivity? You bet it is! 😍
Latest stats just in! You've only gone and done it! 👏
One MILLION (not)parkruns completed! 🤯
🌳 #loveparkrun
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THREAD
The world is littered with hacks and quick fixes.
Magic routines, butter in our coffee, special supplements, exotic foods. All promising to transform our lives.
Nearly all of it is BS. Here are 12 science-backed "hacks" that actually work.
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😁 Some parkrun positivity to keep you going!
🌍 Last week there were 440 events around the world
🎉 That’s the highest since last March!
🤓 It took us nearly 10 years to get to 440 events first time around (16 August 2014, in case you were wondering)
🌳 #loveparkrun
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The number of asylum applications received by European countries in 2019:
Germany: 165,615
France: 128,940
Spain: 117,795
Greece: 77,275
UK: 44,835
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Looks like Garmin paid the ransom
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