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hello single track readers
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um last night I was at Kendall Mountain
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Festival bike night we're talking about
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the um Community interest company called
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ride resilience which I've set up a
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little while ago just briefly talking
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about that and and Hannah popped onto
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stage and uh gave me one of these let it
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focus on there which is a single track
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readers Award for best writer 2022 and
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it's completely come out of the blue
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um I've obviously written this excess
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baggage piece for them a little while
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ago and it was really just me pushing
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myself to do something that I'd not done
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for a while uh something that kind of
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pushed me out of my comfort zone and I
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reached out to the guys at single track
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mark and said hey look I'm gonna do this
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a little Adventure is that something
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that you perhaps want me to document and
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write about take some photos about and
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they said yeah that sounds really
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interesting now to then off the back of
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um as one of three writers of the year
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was completely unexpected uh it was
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hugely humbling it really wasn't what I
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set out to achieve at all I just kind of
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wanted to share my story and share the
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adventure and then to go and win it even
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though I might have made you know a
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couple of hundred fake accounts and
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voted for myself repeatedly
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um is is you know next level so I don't
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really know whether this is the sort of
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thing that you then go and put on your
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CV I suppose CVS are a bit irrelevant to
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me these days anyway but um but yeah
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it's a massive massive Accolade which
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I'm incredibly proud of and it's only
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thanks to you guys voting for me and
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taking the time to read my story so it's
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definitely spurred me on to keep writing
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keep documenting these adventures and
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keep going on adventures full stop so
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thanks again and uh yeah I hope you all
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enjoy the remaining your weekend cheers
