In the last month we’ve had three groups of apprentices through our Personal Learning and Thinking Skills course, challenging themselves and thinking hard about learning in the beautiful surroundings of Snowdonia. With more groups taking on the course in the coming months we asked one cohort to come up with some advice for those that followed in their footsteps. With no prompting from our Development Guides, this is what they produced;
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From the Highland Woodworking Blog:
For most people, any goal or pursuit taken up 10 years ago is probably a long-gone memory [but] for the last decade, Kested has regularly sequestered himself away in his basement workshop, carefully carving, letter by letter, every single line of the Declaration of Independence out of dark walnut wood.
Visit the website to to see more of this amazing piece of work.
My heart rate rises and my stomach gets butterflies just watching this video of Dana Kunze breaking the world high diving record. Watch for the vertical pan showing the height of the tower, it seems like it will never end.
At a recent breakfast meeting, I had the opportunity to meet Mike Buss. Mike describes himself as a ‘World Record Breaking Endurance Athlete’.
A ex-soldier and Physical Training Instructor, Mike’s story was pretty incredible. After suffering hearing loss when a bomb exploded 20 feet from him in Northern Ireland, he was medically discharged and, struggling to adapt to civilian life, he found himself living on the streets of London.
An article on Paddy Boyle inspired him to sort himself out and he set out to break as many fitness world records as he could. He now holds more than 20 world records for fitness and aims to break at least 20 more.
Some of the records he holds are mind-boggling:
Fastest 10 mile road run carrying 40lb pack & wearing chemical warfare suit : 2hrs 42mins.
Longest time spent continuously cycling : 96hrs
Furthest distance covered on a treadmill carrying 120lb pack : 62km.
There is loads more information about his achievements on his website so go and marvel and, while you are there, think about donating to Help for Heroes, Mike’s chosen charity.
Right, I’m off to find my running shoes…
On the Three Peaks event I ran for Evolution Services this weekend I spent some time talking to one of the participants about the feeling of achievement that comes from climbing a mountain. This feeling is very satisfying, often represents real learning and, importantly from a trainers point of view, impossible to fake.
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