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Road to Rotherham – end of the road
It says it all in the Instagram post really. Unfortunately I won’t be competing during 2022. It was a hard decision – I’d trained hard for this and was ready to get on the platform […]
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Road to Rotherham – end of week 7
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Simpson (@chris.simpson.pl) Another week has passed and it was another with a sore heel. Things could be worse, I could be not training, but time […]
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Road to Rotherham – end of week 6
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Simpson (@chris.simpson.pl) It was a cold and miserable one this week – both in terms of the weather and my training. The heel issue returned […]
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Road to Rotherham – end of week 3
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Simpson (@chris.simpson.pl) ‘Discipline is doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, even when you don’t want to’ – Anonymous This […]
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Road to Rotherham – end of week 2
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Simpson (@chris.simpson.pl) Ecclesiastes 4:9 and 10 reads: Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labour:If either of them falls […]
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Road to Rotherham – week 1
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Simpson (@chris.simpson.pl) So there it is, my first proper prep has begun. I say proper because it’s the first time I’ve done anything other than […]
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In The Zone
In the past, I have competed in Tae Kwon Do both at the national level and in the CISM (Confederation International Sport Militaire). I was able to experience and even win some fairly big events […]
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End of week 8 – changes of direction
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Simpson (@chris.simpson.pl) I knew Thursday morning wasn’t going to be good. I unracked 40kg for my first squat warm up set and it felt heavy. […]
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2021 European Championships reaction
The video above documents my thoughts around my performance at the 2021 ABPU European Championships. I could have talked for hours but limited myself to three positives and three areas of improvement: Positives: The people […]