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Sick of second hand life? So was I.
- Published_at:2024-03-14
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: sorting upcycling recycling collecting
- description: JUNK SCREWS: There comes a time in life when you need to sort your shit. In my case, screws and nails and hardware and a wide variety of weird stuff I’ll never use. Occupying opportunistics homes in yogurt containers, hats, shoe boxes and green bags,...
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I knocked the bastard off - Retracing the footsteps of a murderer (Ep 3)
- Published_at:2024-02-18
- Category:Travel & Events
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Ultra-running running adventure Australian Alps expedition documentary run
- description: A BLOODY LONG RUN - EPISODE 3/3: I find myself in good shape, in the mountains, about to start day two of running the 220km McMillans walking track. I'd failed on my first attempt 15 weeks earlier and was back, bearded, a little cagey, fresh off the...
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Running 220km in the footsteps of a murderer | Episode 2
- Published_at:2024-01-30
- Category:Travel & Events
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Adventure Trail Running Ultra Marathon Long Distance Running Trails of Miles Australian Alps
- description: A BLOODY LONG RUN - EPISODE 2: Something was wrong. I was attempting to be the first person to run McMillans walking track- a route cut into the remote and rugged Australian mountains in 1864 by the men of infamous mass murderer Angus McMillan. 55km...
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Running 220km in the footsteps of a murderer
- Published_at:2024-01-16
- Category:Travel & Events
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: adventure McMillans Walking Track Australian Alps Trials of Miles expedition trail running
- description: A BLOODY LONG RUN - EPISODE 1: In 1864 the mass murdering pastoralist Angus McMillan cut an ambitious 220km path through the mountains between two remote gold mining towns in the heart of Victoria, Australia. 120 years later a group of bushwalkers...
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I planted a forest two years ago
- Published_at:2023-12-14
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Tree Planting Forest Growth Nature
- description: FOREST UPDATE 2023: In August of 2021 I loaded up my old ute and old trailer with 1440 trees, bundles of long sticks, a hand of bananas, pogo-stick-planter, dirty swag, slippery tin of sunscreen and a pair of bespoke gumboots lined with running...
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My three day adventure eating only pumpkin
- Published_at:2023-11-28
- Category:Travel & Events
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Cycling Running Camping Food Eating Diets
- description: THE PUMPKIN PROJECT: My neighbors have given me a huge pumpkin for a project I’ve been meaning to do properly for years; go on a three day running and riding adventure while eating a single item of food. As pumpkins are big, they were an obvious...
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I turned a podcast about being a dad into an adventure
- Published_at:2023-10-05
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Hamish & Andy Adventure Hamish Blake Expedition Parenting How Other Dads Dad
- description: This bloke Hamish Blake, who I’ve never met, emails me and says ‘come on my Podcast to talk about being a dad’. Sure, I say, but what about I film a whacky adventure on the way to the studio with my daughter so we have something to talk about? Hamish...
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I picked up 10,000 bottles and cans because of Seinfeld
- Published_at:2023-09-26
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Adventure Recycling Australia
- description: There's a double episode of Seinfeld where Kramer and Newman try to exploit the bottle redemption scheme in NY by driving to Michigan in Newman’s postal van. As it stands, the state I live in doesn’t have a redemptions scheme, while the neighboring...
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Rafting the most polluted river in Australia
- Published_at:2023-09-12
- Category:Travel & Events
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Expedition Queen River Pollution Adventure
- description: Deep within a midlife adventure crisis, I find myself in Tasmania, about to descend a sickly orange, biologically dead river the locals call pumpkin soup. Seeking out places that aren't always the prettiest, wildest or biggest, the Queen river, after...
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A weekend away after the hardest year of my life
- Published_at:2023-08-22
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Mountain biking cycling adventure parenthood
- description: An ode to my wife: After the hardest year of our lives Helen and I head to Tasmania to ride some single track, eat slowly, talk to friends and take stock of two people hurtling through space and time without enough sleep. Low and behold, we realised...
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My 8000th run: a love letter to running
- Published_at:2023-08-03
- Category:Travel & Events
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Running Trail Running Ultra New Zealand Mountains Queenstown
- description: I like running in much the same way I like drinking tea; habitual, never far from being thought about, and both occupy space in my life without question, daily, for much the same period of time. There are days when I don’t run, and days when I don’t...
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Running a marathon in a luxury hotel
- Published_at:2023-04-06
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Seattle 5 star hotel Weird run Indoor running adventure run
- description: When I asked the manager of a five star hotel in Seattle if I could run a marathon around the hallways and stairwells, conference room and lobby, pool deck and bar and anywhere else that was vaguely runnable, I was shocked when she said yes. I even...
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Sweaty man makes handmade hay bales
- Published_at:2023-03-27
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Making hay by hand hay bale farming Hay collection Make Hay
- description: When men in their tractors towing harvesters made silage on my paddock recently I wandered around the giant green bails and marvelled at the efficiency of the process. But I also noticed entire seams of cut grass still left on the ground. I thought,...
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Tennis where every point is on a different court
- Published_at:2023-03-25
- Category:Sports
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: One point per court Multi court Tennis Match Hack Semi-pro
- description: My best mate was a semi-pro tennis player. And amazingly, for all the time we’ve known each other, we’ve never played a set of tennis. I thought it was about time we had ourselves a game! I proposed that every point should be played on a different...
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I ran for six hours and picked up every bit of rubbish I found
- Published_at:2023-03-23
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Rubbish collection recycling half marathon The 12 Days of Newness trash
- description: Driving to the tip one day with a full trailer load I noticed, serendipitously you might say, how much rubbish was on the roadside. I thought ‘gee, I’m heading to the tip, I really should pick up the rubbish on my way!’ But no, with too little time,...
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Triathlon my way to work
- Published_at:2022-12-16
- Category:Sports
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: The Commute Beau Miles Triathlon Adventure Backyard Adventure Commuting
- description: When I realised, as an active 42 year old, that I’d never done a triathlon, I thought geeze, I need to do something about that! So, being a practical kinda fella, I decided to do my first swim-ride-run as a way of getting to work. This, my friends,...
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I went on TV and gave away presents made from junk wood
- Published_at:2022-10-20
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Backyard Adventure ABC Beauisms Woodwork Sydney
- description: I was asked to come in and talk on breaky TV about Backyard Adventuring. I said sure, but why don’t I have a Backyard Adventure instead? I’ll run around Sydney with my wheelbarrow and collect up junk wood, make stuff, and present it to the TV...
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One last run for the best hat ever made
- Published_at:2022-09-15
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Mt Baw Baw Australian Alps Adventure Australian Alpine Walking Track
- description: My magnificent hat has lost the will to live. After fifteen years of sun and body fluids, with a heavy heart and a head full of memories I take my favorite, thread-bare, stinking, beyond-repair hat for one last run. -- Produced and Directed by BEAU...
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The Commute: Walking 90km to work
- Published_at:2021-03-07
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Beau Miles
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- tags: Adventure Backyard Adventure Beau Miles Documentary Long walk Journey
- description: Setting off with no food, water or shelter, I walked 90km to work a bunch of years ago to see if a stripped back adventure could give me the kind of buzz that far away, exotic, heavily planned expeditions have given me over the years. It did....
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