Andy

Veteran. Lives in Wales.
100km World #1 & ½ Marathon GB #1
on C2 SkiErg - 2026 season: Age: 50-54
Rescue dog dad to Coco
#ALAW
I ran Ultras years back.

[Andy @andyroper]

Before running was for insta, crackbook and x clicks.
The MDS.
The Amazon Jungle marathon Ultra. DNF.
24hr - 400M Loop of the Dubai desert sand.
The feet all messed up.
When running was running for yourself.

[Andy @andyroper]

Weakness invites attack; strength preserves peace.
We are weak.

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@MarkOrmrod Rest days.

[Andy @andyroper]

@DominicFarrell he does not fill me with the joys of spring in any way at all.

[Wolfgang Richter @WolfgangRichtEU]

We banned the use of CVs and background checks for recruiting in Germany. It's discriminatory as not everyone had the same opportunity to have a good background, especially refugees.

My daughter's teacher is now an illiterate Libyan slave-trader and my wife's gynecologist a serial rapist from Haiti.

Equity is non-negotiable in my progressive utopia and if this means getting brain surgery by a retarded Somali car mechanic then so be it.

Have a wonderful day,

Wolfgang

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@DominicFarrell I might start to identify as a Sikh.

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@BasilTheGreat Brilliant.

[Andy @andyroper]

Must be doing something right.
Obviously I will take it easy today.

[Assent Performance @SteAssent]

@NidgeHattersSK This is a dew point of 25⁰c

London's highest dew point during the heatwave was 17⁰c.

Talking about 7-9% performance drop off Vs 2-3%

[Andy @andyroper]

Tuesday SkiErg. Interval stuff.
Followed by some calf work.

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@ravbillan Yes Rav. The best time of day.

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@DiBrander You did it. Winning. 🥇

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@SteAssent Triple sessions . Savage.

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@BamaSaltyMarine Tranadan.

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@micheal_ws18 Learn to manage fatigue for the first few weeks and dont be soft and fold when tired.

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@MarkOrmrod Pee with my eyes half shut

[Andy @andyroper]

Hoping others are nice fails every time humans are involved. Life as it is.

[Andy @andyroper]

@history99917180 banter such as this is forbidden in society now squire.

[Andy @andyroper]

Choose comfort for the slow death.

[RG 🇬🇧 @RecteFideliter]

Two things immediately come to mind after seeing the body cam footage of the horrendous treatment of Henry Nowak.

Firstly, during Telic and Herrick, if a British soldier detained a suspected enemy combatant who said he’d been shot, couldn’t breathe, couldn’t support his own body weight and was drifting in and out of responsiveness, we’d have treated him as a casualty first and a detainee second.

That’s not kindness. That’s professionalism.

Even if he’d been shooting at us ten minutes earlier, once he was under our control we had a duty of care. The idea that four police officers couldn’t work out that a lad accused of a petty crime, who couldn’t even sit upright, might require immediate medical attention is beyond belief.

Secondly, Starmer and Hermer have spent years publically demanding scrutiny, investigations and accountability over wafer thin allegations made against British soldiers operating in war zones thousands of miles away.

Fine.

So where’s that same energy now?

A young man repeatedly told police he’d been stabbed. He was handcuffed, ignored, and died in their custody.

If the standards they demand of soldiers mean anything at all, then they should be demanding answers over Henry Nowak too, and making lots of noise about it.

No excuses. No silence. No more double standards.