ADVENTURES OF THE EVERYMAN

310 days since I last wrote. In that time, I have lost my job to redundancy and started another, with the pressures of modern life...

"Who the hell would want to put themselves through an ultra-marathon?", you ask. Well, the answer is more complicated than you would...

For many, this was not a race, it was an adventure. But for all of us, whether at the front of the pack or challenging ourselves to...

This story is really about what I loved about this race, rather than the actual race. Spoiler alert - the actual race went very well and...

In a few short weeks, I’ll be flying out to Peru to compete in the biggest challenge I have set myself yet. Known as one of the world’s...

"The only person you should try to be better than is who you were yesterday" Comparison is the thief of joy, as they say, but there are...

A few months ago I was lamenting my lethargy after failing to make it to the start line of the Winter Spine Challenger. My Winter malaise...

Saturday, 13th January: A date that’s been in my calendar for months. In June last year, I didn’t complete the 108-mile Summer Spine...

Managing my mountain comedown A flash back to my first sports physio appointment several months ago; in recent years, I have suffered...

I am fresh off the event, resting my swollen feet with an additional 9 hour layover in Istanbul airport, which has earned me a free kids...

A while back I had my usual existential crisis and, looking for inspiration, the perfect opportunity came up: the chance to travel to one...

2 weeks today, I fly out to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, for a much anticipated ultra marathon with 200km’s and 9000 metres of climbing in the...

Should you make failure an option and can it be a good thing? I say yes and yes and here’s why. Last weekend I set out to run 108 miles...

Like a lucid dream the experience caught me but with every waking moment, I find myself fighting to keep the memories fresh and hold the...

Spoiler alert: I am alive, mainly well and have returned from the Arctic with all of my digits and almost full use of my body! So that’s...

“So why an ultra marathon in the Arctic? Are you mad?” are very good and fully valid questions I have been asked recently. I am currently...