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,…
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…
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…
I decided in early August that a really good challenge for me would be to attempt to complete a triathlon. This felt acceptably stupid given the fact that I can neither swim nor ride a bicycle. Still, plenty of time to teach an old dog new tricks and all that, so I found some friends…
I just completed a 50 mile ultramarathon; that was awesome! I completed it in 12:20:39, which is apparently pretty good for my first ultramarathon. Right now I’m feeling pretty darn happy about it. But I couldn’t have done the run without everyone else’s help, so I’m thanking everyone first. First of all I have to…
Progress is once again being made. I’ve been running again, this time I was very much Alone in the Dark. I found it quite strange running alongside the river in the dark, with the trees and hedgerows on the other side of me. I’m not the most fearful person in the world, but I have…
So this is possibly not going to be a short update, mostly because I’ve been so woefully inadequate at updating this site over the last month. I would love to be able to say it’s because I’ve been awesome at raising lots of money for charity over the last month, but I haven’t, so I…
Well, this last week and a half have mostly been unproductive. For example, I totally failed to add any miles to my 1000 km challenge, I haven’t finished the second edit of my book and I still haven’t got around to organising a charity album featuring some of the most awesome local bands. In fact…