Very happy to see Bitcoin tanking. It’s pretty obvious crypto serves no useful purpose & has no intrinsic value. Hopefully this sell-off really hurts all the grifters and will make people think twice about “investing” in what is in effect a giant Ponzi scheme.

Daughter did a photoshoot for a skiwear company 🥰😍 ⛷️

Still thinking about 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple this morning. Duran Duran, Radiohead, Iron Maiden…! Darkly comic, very disturbing & a masterclass from Ralph Fiennes. Set up beautifully for the 3rd part of the trilogy to feature Cilian Murphy bsky.app/profile/beni...

Melania the movie - reviews are in at Rotten Tomatoes! - Critics Score; 7% 😬 - Audience Score; 99% 🧐 Looks like the MAGA bots have been busy 😆

File that run under “Glorious” #runsky #trailrunning

This is a good thread, and as @davidallengreen.bsky.social points out provides more evidence of Tory incompetence. Their pathological obsession with immigration & the Rwanda scheme cost the taxpayer dear & benefitted no-one except the Rwandan government.

Paul Kagame's Rwanda government got £290 million from the UK government/taxpayer - for very little beyond three press conferences (with a new Home Secretary each time). The attempt to seek another £100 million shows a striking level of chutzpah www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Long run today; not as long as I wanted but 2 hours is better than nowt. Some fresh snow with occasional sheet ice underneath made for ‘interesting’ going! For a runner, these winter months are maintenance only; most trails snowbound or icy so hard to do meaningful intensity. Roll on spring!

Share a photograph you’ve taken of mountains (have a version of this as a tattoo)

18km & 850m vertical today with Freddie 🐶 . Took in 3 ‘buvettes’ (small mountain restaurants) - Cascade du Dard, Cerro & Glacier des Bossons. Still plenty of snow but warmer temperatures so getting a mix of slush and wet ice #trailrunning #chamonix

Big goal for big Pat #agyemang #dcfc #dcfcsupporters

FUCK. Just signed up for this: UTMB TDS; 153km / 9,000m of vertical 💩😬💩😬💩😬 I’ve got until August 24th to get my shit together. montblanc.utmb.world/races/tds

Congratulations to Lib Dem MPs @freddievanmierlomp.bsky.social and @laylamoran.bsky.social for leaving X 👏 You will find more engagement & more actual voters (rather than bots) on here than the CSAM site. Hopefully more of your colleagues will follow suit.

So delighted to see this from @louisehaighmp.bsky.social - thank you for your pragmatic & principled decision. This is not be a party political matter; it’s simply a case of doing what’s right. Any MP who makes excuses for not leaving a site which generates CSAM should be thoroughly ashamed.

I have found myself in Narnia

Big dump of snow today - fun to run during the blizzard, hard work on the climbs. Freddie having the time of his life 😍🥰 🐶

Quick ski / board with the boy. -16C, only lasted an hour!

Here’s my Strava year in sport - this includes a few hikes but 99% running. I increased volume steadily is year; 5% more distance, 13% more vertical & time. 128,900m vertical ascent = 14.5 Mount Everests or 32% of the way to the ISS 😂 Some big goals in the pipeline for 2026! #trailrunning

Back in 🇫🇷 after a hectic week in 🇬🇧 visiting friends and family. It’s rather chilly 🥶; -13C today, everything is frozen, including sections on the river I pass on the dog walk

This year on Bluesky I wrote 185 posts and 855 replies. I received 5,067 likes, 137 were from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "not" and 😂! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Foolishly stayed up until 2am listening to #theashes on #TMS. No miracles, although nice to hear Joffra get his 50. Now feeling totally discombobulated, like the night after a big lash up (no alcohol was consumed). It’s a strange form of masochism. Will be pleased when the tour is over!

Beautiful Sunday run with Freddie. 19.5km with a respectable 650m of vert along the Petit Balcons sud & nord. Nothing as taxing as that which @alpinemigrant.bsky.social took on today, but I’m looking forward to the bowl of soup (sweet potato & lentil) ‘fait maison’ 😋 #trailrunning #chamonix

88’ 🥅 GOALLLLL! Joe Ward delivers another corner and Matt Clarke heads home! #DCFC 1-1 #Millwall 🦁 #dcfcfans

One to get you into the festive spirit. Taken exactly one year ago in Le Lavancher

Just submitted my French nationality application. It has aged me.

My last #trailrunning race of the season today at Les Saisies (1,600m) ski resort. All on pistes through snow, lots of slipping & sinking. I ran well though considering I’ve been sick on & off since late Sept. 20km / 870m vert / 53/370 scratch, 4th in my age cat 💪🏼 altichrono.fr/resultats/20...

First Nordic ski / ski de fond of the year. Just a short one to try & remember how it works. Perfecting the “Bambi on ice” look, but only one crushingly embarrassing fall which is a total result 😂

Grands Montets! ⛷️

Had a disjointed week of training; 2 sessions missed due to the snow and one as I had a 2-day trip to 🇬🇧 Nice mid-long (90’ / 14km) run this morning in the snow. Have a race next Sunday which I feel a bit undercooked for. Used the micro-spikes today which felt fine, will need them for the race

Off to 🇬🇧 for a quick trip; uni mates annual (early) Xmas lunch. 20 of us who mostly graduated in 1995 😱 It’s normally in central London, but one the lads has MND & can’t travel, so this year the party comes to him in Surrey Big question; can I drink in moderation under severe duress?

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Radiohead Suede Bloc Party The Orb The Inspiral Carpets

Got my results already; B2 (upper intermediate 🎉) Great news as that will be the threshold from next year in case I do need to reapply for any reason. Phew 😮‍💨- another thing ticked off the list

I lost a friend this week. A dad from my son’s class, lovely guy, exceptional trail-runner & ski mountaineer. Not a close friend, but we chatted most weeks at the school gates or when we met on the trails. He died suddenly, in a work accident. He was 40, his daughter was his world…. 1/2

Dog walk. Never seen so much snow in November.

Snowmageddon. Had to clear the driveway with a shovel just now to get out - cardio for the day done 😅, although the dog walk is going to get the heart-rate up too

Have my French language (TEF-IRN) assessment today in Annemasse for residency application. Meant to start at 9am. My computer didn’t work so pushed to 11.30am. Then have the oral test. Dog at home needs walking, kids picking up from school & it’s snowing. Stress levels uncomfortably elevated!

This is a terrific piece that gets to the nub of things. How, in Mahmood’s fantasy, taking rights away from immigrants will somehow appease the racists. It’s an easier fix than addressing the inequality & economic failures which are actually fuelling division www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Quote with your first Bluesky post (this was actually my 3rd but the first interesting one 👇🏼)

I promise I’ll stop the ridiculously pretty winter running photos soon 10km / 1 hour / 310m vertical #runsky #trailrunning #chamonix

Yep, that’s two sessions that are going to weigh heavy on us. Losing 9 wickets for <100 runs then capitulating with the ball in the face of some aggressive batting. All the positives of day 1 wiped away with significant additional interest.

A really good thing about this is that it's the sort of defeat that the touring side carry around with them for the rest of the series like a bucket of cold sick in the corner of the dressing room.

Hard to imagine how the cricket could have gone worse for England today #theashes

Mahmood finding any possible excuse for the racists (asylum seekers, immigration) rather than simply calling them out. And also fails to mention the very obvious link between racism on X being rife & not only going unpunished but being amplified by Musk.

A few more centimetres overnight ❄️

Short run today, just to check out snow conditions further up the mountain. Run stats: I just passed 120km of vertical ascent for the ytd (2,535km distance in total). 16% up on last year’s vert so far, aiming for 130,000m+ for the full year #runsky #trailrunning #chamonix

If I didn’t want the likes of Tommy Robinson applauding my immigration plans, I would simply not divise a policy that appealed to the far-right www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...

Only a dusting but enough to make the morning dog walk pretty. More on the way later today ❄️😍

Couche de soleil (with crane 😂)

New read - will report back

Absolutely splendid afternoon for a run. Winter is coming! #chamonix #aiguilledumidi