Dan Bartlett: coach, writer, engineer & founder

Nice routine this morning: straight downstairs to prepare everyone’s breakfast.

A 105km stormy ride to Glastonbury, Cheddar and Chew Valley Lake.

When you start writing its natural to obsess over the quality of what you share.

An 80km loopy ride around Chew Valley Lake and Bath.

As we took off for our honeymoon to Switzerland, I had already decided that I’d probably have a drink.

One of my first posts on this blog was Why Fitness Matters.

Hello September 🍁 It’s been a busy few weeks on the blog!

I first tried Huel about 2 years ago.

This is a simple post about something that you participate in every day.

It’s time to break the tyranny of note-taking apps and blogging platforms: write your online content in a universal language that encourages flow and keeps you focused on the content.

Organising anything with Trello is a joy: Web and mobile versions of Trello mean you can easily edit your projects from anywhere.

You found a new diet.

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Seven blessings friends, First off, a big thank you to everyone who supported me as I ran my first 100km along the Cotswolds.

In Part 1 I shared my preparation for my 100km fundraising run, with a focus on the heat, as this race was due to take place in the longest heatwave the UK has seen in 5 years 🔥 This is my race report of how it went on the day I ran the Cotswold Way Chall…

At the end of last year, I sat down and drew up my 2018 race calendar.

Yesterday was a special run for me.

Earlier this year I read Catherine Gray’s The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober and decided to stop drinking for 3 months: a Sober Spring.

Hello sunshine ☀️ It’s been a little while since I sent out an update.

2021 update: I no longer use Ghost to power this blog!

It’s been five months since I launched this blog.

I recently read Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work!

You may have heard of Occam’s razor: the principle that given many competing explanations we should prefer those that make the fewest assumptions.

Sourdough is the old-time bread: delicious, nutritious, and easy to make.

In Part 1, I talked about my inspiration for running 50 miles and the injury-ridden preparation for my first ultramarathon.

How to run 50 miles.

This post outlines the five pointers for dealing with anxiety that I wish I’d had to hand a few years ago.

We are what we do, consistently: our days are strung together through the momentum of our habits, both good and bad.

It’s already been 2 weeks since I had my last drink, and for the next 3 or so months, I won’t be drinking any alcohol.

When our own choices turn to compulsions, we suffer a loss of meaning.

My writings tend to revolve around a few reocurring themes: Investing in perennial practises over short-term lifehacks.

Meditation can be summed up in one directive: just come back.

A new weight loss study was released this week, reported by various news outlets with the following headline: Counting calories not key to weight loss, study finds.

Some decisions are really tough.

Meditation continues to soar in popularity.

When most of us think of “fitness”, the images that arise are often not pleasant: sweaty gyms, restrictive diets, and the thought of fitting even more tasks into an already busy day.

In September 2016, I ran my first race: a 10k.

2021 note: I often get asked for recommendations on meditation books and teachers.

2021 note: this post was written 7 years ago, when I was the founder of a meditation community known as OpenSit.

To see to the bottom of a pond, the water needs to be clear and still.

Meditation is the practice of freedom through insight Through the practise of paying attention to our moment-to-moment experience, we gain insight through seeing how we are not free.

Because we care, we choose to practice.

It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really

This is an web version of Preconquest Consciousness by E.

When you sit down to practice Vipassana meditation, you observe your moment to moment experience with the intention of seeing the three characteristics: anicca (impermanence, change), dukkha (unsatisfactoriness, suffering) and anatta (not-self).

On Sunday night I got back from a three week work retreat at the stunning Gaia House in Devon.

I sat on a cushion in my bedroom, in darkness.

I’ve been back from Dhamma Dipa for two days now.

I wrote this in my early 20s under heavy doses of Robert Anton Wilson and Aleister Crowley. 1 Awareness contracts to focus they say it’s not hocus pocus to them it is just a thought.