The personal website of John Conners
Long time readers of this blog may recall I spent a lot of my 20s mountain biking. Pretty much all my spare time was spent riding up hills, then riding down them again all around Yorkshire and the Lake District. Good times! But you know how it goes, people start settling down, getting married, having Read more
I've spent the last year learning Brazilian jiu jitsu and while I'm terrible at it, I love it! These are my thoughts on the past year as a 50 year old giving it a try. Read more
I m surprised I didn t write about it at the time, but way back in 2003 I was massively into mountain biking. So a friend and I resorted to night mountain biking during the Winter to get our off season fix. One night we were biking in the cold and dark near a place called Appletreewick Read more
I wrote way way back in 2005 that I had this recurring dream where in the dream I see a tornado (or sometimes multiple tornadoes) and then say or think wow, after all these years of recurring tornado dreams I finally see a real one! before I wake up and realise it was yet another Read more
My girlfriend and I just returned from a trip around Iceland and to say that it over-delivered would be a massive understatement. On researching the trip (which started with a couple of days road tripping around Reykjavik) I was expecting us to see a lot of waterfalls and hike up a few mountains. What I Read more
Back in the days of lockdown foreign travel was not an option. Walking around the local park was about as much travel as you could do in the UK. However between two periods of lockdown October 2020 one of the few countries I could travel to was Madeira, a Portuguese island located off Read more
I spent a lot of my late teens and early 20s hiking up the mountains of Scotland with friends and it s something that s stayed with me all these years since. I don t get to go as often as I used to I live in Yorkshire and the hills here don t really compare, although the Read more
Up until aged 20 I was a pretty lazy guy. Then one day a switch flipped in my head and everything changed. I started running and literally managed to run for about 30 seconds before collapsing, exhausted. That made me keep trying until I was able to comfortably run a marathon distance with a friend Read more
Like many in the UK my impression of the demographic who go on a cruise is of people in their 70s or 80s who re too old to travel themselves and instead go on what is basically a floating hotel to different places, then do organised excursions on land. When my girlfriend suggested we go on Read more
I can hardly believe I m writing this but 20 years ago today my mother died from cancer. I ve been blogging so long I wrote about it when it happened and then 5 years later when I came to terms with her death and could put into words what it felt like and how it hit Read more