Having completed five tough weeks of strongman training, it was finally time to test my progress at England’s Strongest Man Under 80kg Novice competition. A few weeks before, I learned that my Ghost Squad amigo, Hakon Fram Stokka, was flying from Norway to Edinburgh to do a 50+ km Spartan Ultra...
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I've just shoved a calendar-style thing on my Facebook page, so you can see where I'm going to be, what I'm going to be doing, and when! Now it's easier than ever to come say hi at Gay Bum gigs, Ghost Squad race hauntings, comic conventions and wrestling shows! Hopefully that means I won't keep ...
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During the Superhuman Games this weekend, there were moments when I had some doubts. Whilst collapsed on the grass, for example, with my eyes screwed tight shut in an effort to stop them exploding out of my skull. There was a hole in at least one of my lungs. There was a throwing axe buried in...
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For some reason (possibly because I am a huge fan of theirs) I agreed to take part in the Genesis MMA Gym's December Fitness Challenge. What ensued was three hours of total madness. We started with a run through High Wycombe. Don't ask me how far we ran because I honestly have no idea. It t...
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Ladies and gentlefaces, Gay Bum will now officially be playing LeeFest 2013! I say 'officially' because we do tend to sneak into things like this and play anyway... ..we call it Blitz Gigging. On a lineup that includes the Noisettes, Delphic, The Skints and London Grammar, we might look a little ...
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Friends, enemies and animals with all the qualifications for personhood, who are nevertheless spurned by those who confused the concepts of human and person. LEND ME YOUR EARS! Murorga Sim Bowa (that's me, would you believe?) has been challenged to defend his EWA British Championship against t...
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Local people of High Wycombe and the surrounding area, please pay attention! This Saturday (2nd of June) will see the proper return to power of Murorga Sim Bowa - wrestling's most baffling combination of super heroics and unbridled rage, at EWA Revenge. Staring at 18:30 at Wycombe Judo centre,...
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I have just signed up for the Wycombe Half Marathon in July. I have never, ever run any considerable distance in my life. It's going to suck... As you can see from the diagram, the course is akin to Satan's balls. When it's not insane uphill, it's crazy downhill. As somebody who has never run...
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