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Anne Green

@ultrawimp.bsky.social
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I used to run ultras and search for WIMPs. (personal account, personal opinions)

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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Sunday afternoon stroll on the moors triggered a relapse of my Levellers earworm (“this is where I come when I want to be free… …there’s only one way of life and that’s your own”).
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We didn’t manage to get tickets to watch the basho itself this trip, so instead we watched the rikishi arriving and leaving.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
While the OH went to a J-metal gig (on a Sunday morning!) I had fun at the Olympic museum and set the day’s record on the interactive shooting exhibit (thanks to being the first person to do it).
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A day of Tokyo favourites: micro pigs, another garden and TeamLab Borderless.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A varied day in Tokyo: sumo training at Isegahama stable, Kiyosumi gardens and the museum of contemporary art.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Day trip to Naoshima for pumpkins (and other art).
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ritsurin garden, Takamatsu.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Took the ropeway to Tairyuji, temple number 21. Saw some henro who were walking all 88 temples (and 1200 km). Was only a little bit jealous.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Left the Iya Valley and headed to Naruto for whirlpools and Ryozenji (temple number one on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage).
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Feeding birds in the rain after an ‘interesting’ drive along single track mountain roads with blind bends to scarecrow village.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Ioki cave and the Iya valley.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Daihoji temple and Nakatsu gorge:
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ishiteji temple, Matsuyama.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Day 1 of our Shikoku road trip and we’ve accidentally booked a night in a love hotel, in a somewhat chintzy room with a cosplay rental menu…
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Made it out onto the moors to talk to sheep for the first time in 3 months.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Nigel the knee was up to some alpaca feeding:
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My first solo trip out in 2 months: a gong bath at a sunflower field.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Freedom! I’m cleared to wean myself off the crutches, and drive. Not wearing the most stylish or flattering t-shirt. But was seeing a different physio than usual and wanted to demonstrate that I’m (in the words of another physio) ‘not an average 50-something woman’.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This (and many of the other posts on this substack) has me nodding my head vigorously:
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Enjoying an interesting book (‘Inside the box’ by David Epstein) while enjoying the Sun. But it’s amazing how much the garden has returned to the wild in the last 2 months (and it’s taking a lot of self restraint not to try and sort it out).
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This week has been a Week. And unfortunately I disposed of my unused morphine (joke), so instead I’m eating a very sickly dessert.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walking again! (Albeit very slowly and carefully.)
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Happy to finally get my birthday present (a Grotta Sonora sound plate) set up so I can sort of play it (sat on the floor with my right leg locked flat and straight in front of me).
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Pursuing a side interest while working on my tan lines:
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m partly back to work (emails and meetings at least) at home, but struggling with being stuck on the sofa. So very happy to have bum-shuffled and pistol-squatted my way out to the garden today, and also upstairs for some one-legged gong and singing bowl playing.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Passing time by watching the Western States livestream while sewing. (The OH is letting me hog the TV and watch all sorts of sports, but inflicting a 100 mile trail race on him felt a bit much).
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The OH has had to take over laundry duties, and is being overly efficient:
Conversation 1 "did you wash a pair of shorts and a t-shirt that were on the bed?" 2: "I think I did". 1: " They were clean...". 2: "They're even cleaner now..."
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
2 weeks post op: Good news: knee mobility is 4 weeks ahead of schedule (the surgeon should probably get most of the credit for this). Bad news: I’ve already lost a lot of muscle. Just as I thought I’d got to grips with sleeping on my back in the brace, the heatwave has upped the difficulty level.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The OH has bought me a life-sized* cardboard cutout of Midorifuji (one of my favourite sumo wrestlers). * in reality he’s 10cm taller than me (which is very short for a rikishi).
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Toaster moved to the kitchen table so I can make breakfast and lunch for myself.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Yoshinofuji i) showing off his football skills @PSGJapan, ii) puts his handbag down to do some bull fighting with Hakunofuji @sumokyokai, Kotosho & (an uncharacteristically smiley) Roga at the opera @kotoshoho_kashiwa IG, Abi visits a school (who did the risk assessment for that!) @france3paris IG
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Rikishi in Paris highlights: Yokozunas Hoshoryu and Onosato having fun with baguettes @sumokyokai, Takanosho enjoying a croissant @sumokyokai, Mitakeumi is less impressed with French food @mitakeumi_kouenkai_official IG, Kirishima & Koseiryu went on a side quest to Chamonix @kirishima_f.a IG
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
But at least I no longer need to use the ‘decontamination wash’. My hair did not like that!
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
My next project: meniscus root tear recovery. Stage one: six weeks non weight bearing…
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Watching clouds:
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Wild camp site. My plan to read lots of books was foiled by wind and broken reading glasses. But I met lots of good sheep.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
And a quick stop at the Avro heritage museum on the way home:
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
An eclectic mix of sights from this weekend’s ‘places to retire to’ scouting trip:
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Escaped to the coast for the weekend:
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
An industrial fused-quartz resonator, to complement my existing hand-worked hammered metal resonators (which have more complex inharmonic spectra). Or in non-Physics language, a ‘crystal’ singing bowl to complement my Himalayan metal bowls. #physicsofsound
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Followed by a Sunday morning alpaca feeding trip:
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Attempted to cheer myself up by (virtually) riding a kids bike dressed as a dinosaur (on top of the shitshow that is British academia, the knee injury that’s stopped me running for the past year is a meniscus tear which probably isn’t repairable…).
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The Peak District isn’t the Arctic, but solitude can still be found if you know where to look.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
While cleaning out a cupboard I found the results of the 1997 Taunton marathon. It had a 4h 30 cut off, 153 male finishers and 15 women. I was last woman in 4h 18 (which is still my PB…) with a dozen men behind me.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Pondering future adventures…
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Reaching the finish line of the 500km Lapland Arctic Ultra, this time 2 weeks ago. Feels like a million years ago now, and I yearn for the simplicity of pulling my pulk through wilderness. (Photos courtesy of Callum Joliffe.)
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Enjoying some R&R back in Jockfall. It’s ~30 degrees C warmer than when I first arrived here 2 and a bit weeks ago!
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The contrasts of my last 4 sleeping places: a storage cupboard at a checkpoint (escaping from the snorer in the communal sleeping area), Polar circle cabin, an old farmstead, and back in civilisation post finish.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
And done. One of the toughest but best things I’ve ever done. There were various moments (over the last 10 days/8 months) when I thought it wasn’t going to be possible.
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Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Breakfast! I have become a human eating machine.
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