The B&B didn’t serve breakfast until 8am, so I didn’t get moving out of Ullapool until after 9am. Powered by cereal, toast and fried breakfast, and with good weather above my head, I yomped along. Today was going to provide relatively little elevation change, and with good path I was confident that I could make…
I awoke to midges attacking my tent and my knee continuing to grumble. It had screamed at me loud enough at one point during the night to wake me up. There was sod all I could do about either of these problems and so I packed everything I could from inside my tent and prepared…
I awoke later than usual, finding it rather tempting to stay indoors and in my sleeping bag. Still, that river wasn’t going to cross itself, and I made my way to the top of the loch which, according to some information I found in the bothy, was supposedly the best place to cross it. It…
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…
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…
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later, my knee was always going to give out on me at some point. I had hoped it would wait until after I had completed my crazy running challenges, but no such luck. On the bright side, I’ve only minorly buggered it. I reckon I’ll be able…
Gosh it’s been a hard week, and I’m not entirely sure that I’ve done a lot. It’s been a bit of an up and down week really. It’s mostly consisted or running, disorganising and cake. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about cake, a little bit of making cake and far too much eating…
So this it, over the last week I’ve finally started taking donations. I haven’t opened the donation tin yet, I’m a bit worried about how little is in there, and also it seems people are quicker to donate to a tin that already has change rattling around in it than one which is empty, so…
I am now thirteen hours into my 24 hour fast. I’m starting to feel hungry, but it’s great to be getting the first stupid challenge under way. This week has been a bit slow. It started okay, on Saturday I did my first ever full marathon distance run. It was nice to know that I…
Woohoo! I’ve found a local charity to raise money for. It’s called Little Miracles and they are a support group and charity for children that have autism, additional needs, disabilities and life limiting conditions. They’re based up in Ely and they reach out to Cambridge, Newmarket and surrounding villages too, so they are very much…