The road is going on and on. It’s warm and I am not wearing the appropriate clothing. The will is faltering. Maybe a car will come along and take pity on my tortured soul. Maybe it will let me sit in the passenger seat and it can drive at 5kph. Just for 10mins as I … Continue reading PROFESSIONAL PEBBLE MOVING & A TALE OF 4 ULTRAS
3 Peaks of Pirin
Every adventure starts with some kind of random search on the internet, maybe thats just me. This particular tale started in the autumn of 2023. I wanted to run a shorter mountain ultra in September the following year. When I say shorter, ideally the distance would be 50km. It also needed to have some big … Continue reading 3 Peaks of Pirin
Adventures on the TMB
Adventures are ace, fact. Adventures with friends are acer! I think this adventure idea came about some time during the night of the CCC in 2022 when I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be cool to see what all this looks like in the daytime? Most of the 2nd half of the race was in … Continue reading Adventures on the TMB
It’s a race Jim, but not as you know it
There is something special about the Pennine Way. It draws you in, it brings a sense of adventure. A journey from point to point though a real mixture of terrain, at times really remote and wild. A place I feel comfortably uncomfortable in. After the Spine Challenger DNF, something was missing from my race calendar, … Continue reading It’s a race Jim, but not as you know it
When it goes to Sh*T!
I really don’t know where to start on this blog, but I need to write my thoughts down for some closure. My brain needs to move on and refocus on other things. I guess a DNF is always a possibility when you take on any race but it’s not something I had really thought about. … Continue reading When it goes to Sh*T!
Training in the lakes – Tour De Helvellyn style
The plan had been going really well. I had recce’ roughly 2/3 of the Spine Challenger South course. I had completed lots of long, long runs. I had started getting the kit nailed, fitness was improving, and I was excited for the last recce then a training race before Christmas. Annoyingly things took a pause, … Continue reading Training in the lakes – Tour De Helvellyn style
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
I think I can call myself a mountain ultra-runner now. Does that sound funny to say or a bit arbitrary? Many friends, peers and professional runners I talk to have completed quite a few of these types of races but for me, I feel like I have been building up to this for a few … Continue reading The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Training Day, Exmoor style!
In TV land there is saying, don’t work with children or animals, because these are things you can’t control, lols. In running the golden rule is don’t try new things on race day. Well, I have worked with both Children and animals, to varying degrees of success but no harm came to either or me … Continue reading Training Day, Exmoor style!
Moments of Hell, moments of Joy
Life is a series of moments, which combine to be experiences. The same can be said about running, because after all running is life right 😉 There was a moment in the summer of 2020, when the hope that a longer race would happen entered my mind. That moment released thought patterns that formed to … Continue reading Moments of Hell, moments of Joy
The Legendary Lakeland 50
“Make sure you drop your £1 in the collection box”. This is what the lovely lady serving cheese toasties at the final check point said to me and other runners as were preparing for the final climb and descent of the race. The collection box in question is mandatory on this race to help raise … Continue reading The Legendary Lakeland 50
The Life of Jay Z 