I’d slept well, waking only to listen to a thunderstorm passing overhead. By morning the skies were grey and the wind had dried my tent. A good start to a boggy day. I knew that the next stretch over the River Carnach and towards Barrisdale would wet. I squelched along through the bog until it…
Today started quite well. I had actually managed to get a little bit of sleep on the sleeper train and had rolled into Fort William at 10am. It was likely that I would have to wait until midday for the next train to Glenfinnan, so I thought I would detour to the supermarket and pick…
Warning: This write up is going to be long! For my pre-race thoughts on this run, please check out this page. The Pen Llyn Ultra – what a race. I’d alternated between supreme confidence and the knowledge of my certain failure in the run up to this race. I’d done well in the Apocalypse 50,…
Following on from completing the Pen Llyn Ultra, I realised that I was only a few points away from qualifying for one of the races that form part of the UTMB series – either the CCC with 101 km of across and 6.1 km of up and down, or the TDS with 119 km of…
Cape Wrath Trail – Part 1: Introduction Cape Wrath Trail: Day 1 – Glenfinnan to Sourlies Bothy Cape Wrath Trail: Day 2 – Sourlies Bothy to Kinloch Hourn Cape Wrath Trail: Day 3 – Kinloch Hourn to Maol-bhuidhe Cape Wrath Trail: Day 4 – Maol-bhuidhe to Beinn Eighe Cape Wrath Trail: Day 5 – Beinn…
I swore after running a 50 mile race that I would never run another 50 mile race ever again. I then ran another 50 miler, and now I have to run a 75 mile race, the Pen Llyn Ultramarathon. I signed up for it because I thought it looked fun. After signing up, I immediately…
Imagine a race with a start line, but no finish line. You simply had to run as far as possible, measured as the crow flies, away from the start in Meriden. GPS tracking is keeping an eye on how you are doing, all you have to do to win is to complete a certain distance…
I swore after running a 50 mile race that I would never run another 50-mile race ever again. Instead, having enjoyed and broken myself immensely a couple of times last year with my stupid running challenges, I thought to myself, why not do this again. Clearly there is something wrong with me. I don’t know…
Cambridge Boundary Run II (Marathon) The Cambridge Boundary Run is a marathon (~26.2 miles) race that runs around the boundaries of Cambridge. This will be the second year that I have attempted the run. Last year I completed it in the somewhat respectable time of 3:48:35. I think that I trained a bit more seriously…
There are some amazing people in my life. Some of those amazing people are selling a calendar full of pictures of them wearing not a lot (or less), all to help with raising £10,000 for charity. These people are kickboxers, and so some of them are not too bad to look at, and besides it’s…