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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Barber |
| Location | Oldham, Lancashire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Well just over three years ago my hobby was going around pubs and clubs mainly singing and playing guitar in a duo, so lots of late nights, bad diet and plenty of alcohol too, so although I was enjoying myself very much my health was not very good. So just before I reached 40 (one month to be exact and 14 stone) I had a mid life crisis - but instead of going out and buying a new sports car or trying to regain my youth somehow, I decided that the cheap option would be to buy a pair of trainers instead, go running and lose some weight and I also hung my guitar up in the process and retired from my music hobby giving my full atention to my new hobby. But being as competitive as I am I did my first marathon 5 months later around Lake Windemere and it nearly killed me, it was by far the hardest thing that I had ever done in my life until that point. Since then just over 3 and a half years and 7 ultras, 11 marathons and 14 half marathons later I have managed to lose over 3 and a half stone and just cant get enough of running, I am really hooked. I am a runnerholic and proud to admit it!! |
| Interests | apart from running ultras which takes up alot of my time, playing guitar, singing, watching sport (would love to play it but I am very injury prone), holidaying and socialising. |
| Favorite movies | Life of Brian, The Shaw Shank Redemption, Good Will Hunting, Papion, Meet Joe Black, The Matrix, Avatar, First Blood. |
| Favorite music | As a musician i have been inspired by many bands and solo artist and differant styles. Firstly the Beatles and Paul McCartney, Paul Weller and the Jam, Queen, Rush, Led Zepplin, The Police, Sting, Barry Manilow, Billy Joel, Bread are a few to mention but I will listen to most genres of music and I love harmony bands. |
| Favorite books | The Firm, Papion and most auto biograpy books of my favorite musicians and of course a little inspiration from my favorite sports people and runners. |