Sport provides an environment in which we can reliably (and safely) fail. It sharpens every aspect of us, physically, mentally, emotionally, to perform better under stress.

As we head towards Christmas, I'm enormously grateful.

Forgive me, number-phobes, today I'm going to use maths as a metaphor.

Being exposed to the process so closely, I recently realised why I’m foolish not to be doing the same.

As Marcus Aurelius so aptly put it almost 2000 years ago, “the obstacle is the way”.