Sublime

To them this wasn’t odd … to them this was Tuesday.

If you do not abide by the rules of physiology and pacing, your body and brain will fail you (since you simply cannot fight against your own physiology and psychology).

central to any adventure is camaraderie and the science of a smile.

wishing you fair winds and following seas.’

I spent the next hour getting reacquainted with warmth and hygiene, two long-lost friends I hadn’t seen in over five months at sea.

I was fuelled by a kind of ‘feral fortitude’.

RESILIENCE IS SUFFERING STRATEGICALLY MANAGED

RESILIENCE CANNOT BE RUSHED, BUT QUITTING CAN

‘He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much savage. He who is only a scholar is too soft, too effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.’