The Cinnamon Bun Run (Cinnamon Café Windsor)
The Cinnamon Bun Run is not all that it seems, mainly because it’s a cycle ride which always visits the legendary Cinnamon Café Windsor.
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Author: Ro Kallicharan
Ro (Rohan) is an award-winning mental health campaigner and speaker with lived experience of mental illness. He has been involved in a number of high-profile campaigns to raise awareness and break down the stigma around mental ill-health, and is a Trustee at Mind, the UK's largest mental health charity. He is a sub-3 hour marathon runner, HR Director and husband to Claire.
Fun Before Fifty Diaries: Ten Marathons in Ten Days
Ten Marathons in Ten Days, the fabled TiT. This is the story of how I accidentally achieved my impossible dream!
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Fun Before Fifty Diaries: The Marathon Streak
I planned to start Fun Before Fifty with a marathon triple but it looks as if I’m embarking on an accidental marathon streak a bit longer than that!
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Mind and Muscle Memory
On the long road back from injury, both mind and muscle memory can be our best friends if we allow them to be. After close to a year out, I’m slowly finding my feet again.
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Reflections on 2022
Turning to reflections on 2022, I am met by a chaotic and eclectic fusion of triumph and disaster. Using Kipling’s “If” as a guideline, I look back at the year here.
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Podcast: The Men’s Room – Mental Health Special (TalkSPORT)
In December 2022, I joined Ade & Rory on The Men’s Room from TalkSPORT in a special episode around mental health and wellbeing.
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Podcast: Talent & Growth LIVE
This podcast features talks from me and Beckie Taylor at Talent & Growth LIVE, held at Warner Bros London in October 2022.
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Media: BBC Radio London – World Mental Health Day 2022
On World Mental Health Day, Mind released research showing that 2 in 5 young people (16-24) didn’t have the words to describe how they are feeling when struggling with mental health. I discussed this on BBC Radio London with Shay Grewal.
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Podcast: Recovery & Self-Discovery – Talent Hacks for Scaleups
In this episode of Talent Hacks for Scaleups, Sophie and I speak candidly about recovery and self-discovery beyond mental illness, and about wellbeing in the workplace.
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Media: Exposing mental health inequality (Channel 4 News)
In May 2022, Jords and I spoke to Victoria Macdonald on Channel 4 News about his powerful poem which brought my story to life in spoken word.
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