Life Lessons from the Trail #15: Little Things Can Have A Big Impact
30 millimetres. That's 3 centimetres, or just over an inch in imperial terms. If you estimate this space using your thumb and index...
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Mal
- Aug 8, 2022
- 5 min
Life Lessons from the Trail #27: People With Purpose Can Do More Than Those with Formal Mandates
Mountain biking is one of those sports which on the surface appears to be centred around a very individual pursuit of accomplishment. ...
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Mal
- Jul 24, 2022
- 6 min
Life Lessons from the Trail #4: Balance is your Friend
Well, time flies when you're having fun... or when you're just busy. Since starting the Life Lessons from the Trail series at the...
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Mal
- Jul 10, 2022
- 5 min
Life Lessons from the Trails #12: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
The wonders of technology, if you think about it, are pretty amazing. For those of us that are perhaps a bit older, watching the...
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Mal
- Jun 27, 2022
- 8 min
Life Lessons from the Trail #19 - Your Instinctive Reactions Aren't Always the Right Ones
Like all of the Life Lessons from the Trail posts I do, I've been meaning to write about this topic for a while. But if I'm being...
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Mal
- Apr 25, 2022
- 10 min
Life Lessons from the Trail #6: Exercise Can Help Manage Stress and Depression
The Consequences of Being Busy Before I get into this particular piece, you might be wondering about what happened to lessons #2, #3, #4...
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Mal
- Apr 19, 2022
- 9 min
A few random thoughts - Inspired by observations about mountain biking away from home.
Well, once again, it's been a while since I've managed to post anything and truthfully, this particular piece wasn't the one that was...
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Mal
- Jan 30, 2022
- 6 min
Life Lessons from the Trail #1: To realise what's possible, learn to see what isn't in front of you
Truthfully this particular life lesson didn't crystallise for me on two wheels. Instead it happened while I was doing something a little...
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Mal
- Jan 16, 2022
- 4 min
2022 - Life Lessons from the Trails
Belated happy new year! It's been a while, but it's also been sometime since I've done anything mountain biking related. The weather...
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Mal
- Jun 2, 2021
- 6 min
A Coach's Job
"How do you feel about your protege leaving?" my boss from my adult job asked me. He was referring to one of my managers with whom I'd...
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Mal
- May 12, 2021
- 9 min
Searching for Balance - An Update on Mountain Bike Coaching
So if it feels like it's been a while since you've heard from me, that's probably because it has been. The other day I happened to check...
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Mal
- Dec 22, 2020
- 4 min
2020 Christmas Wishes and Unexpected Incidents
I've been a little bit quiet overt the last few weeks so I thought I'd pop my head up and mention why, and to wish you all a Merry...
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Mal
- Sep 10, 2020
- 1 min
R U OK?
Hi everyone. Life has been keeping me busy but I wanted to say that you're all in my thoughts and I would genuinely like to ask if...
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Mal
- Jul 20, 2020
- 4 min
The Art of Achieving Stretch Goals and Objectives
I've been a bit quiet on the blog for a few weeks now and for good reason. Between my day job through the week and coaching both days on...
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Mal
- Jun 1, 2020
- 4 min
Mastering the Art of Being Wrong
"What do you mean I have to do this differently. This is what I was taught." I have had that sentence stated verbatim to me at least...
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Mal
- May 26, 2020
- 4 min
Getting Back On The Bike
Fear is a funny thing. A biological response designed to protect you from getting hurt and feeling pain, fear is that emotional response...
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Mal
- Jan 2, 2020
- 7 min
Then and Now - Some of the Journeys of 2019
Happy new year! 2019 has come and gone and now that we're already into the second day of 2020 it's probably about time that I started...
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Mal
- Sep 3, 2019
- 4 min
Turning Point - Beginning the Journey to find Mountain Bike Nirvana
This is a post inspired by a chance meeting on the trails. I happened to bump into Monique, Natalie and Shannon while riding one weekend....
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Mal
- Aug 5, 2019
- 3 min
Faith, Persistence and Discovery - A Mountain Bike Journey
This is the story of a young rider I met when I first started coaching mountain biking at the beginning of last year. Anais was in Year...
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Mal
- May 16, 2019
- 3 min
The Danger Zone - Origins of a Riding Nickname
The slightly amusing tale which details the history of how Mal received his riding nickname.
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