If it wasn’t for the fact that I have a 2 month old child who would be, let’s see, 8 months old at the time then I would seriously consider applying to be the third person in Ben Fogle and James Cracknell’s attempt to reach the South Pole in December this year.
No, seriously.
I mean [...]
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Priorities
Disappointingly, I’ve had to pull out of the Rat Race next weekend. I am gutted but I have other priorities which, um, take priority. There is always next year.
However, I will be putting what little free time I might have to good use by working on a pitch document for a feature film [...]
Just do it
I’m not doing the Dublin marathon. The online website I booked through eventually came back with an apology for the delay and a message that they had refunded my entry. I’m a little disappointed but it solves my quandary. I should point out, while I’m at it, that the quandary wasn’t so [...]
LAMM 2007 – Day 2
“We’re 76th out of 130.”
“What?” I said, although it came out more like “Gwoah?” as I was busy shovelling supernoodles into my mouth like they were going out of fashion.
“We finished in 76th place today, out of 130 who finished so far,” elaborated Blue.
I did some hasty mental arithmetic. “That’s nearly in the top [...]
LAMM 2007 – Day 1
The fact that I’m sitting here writing this is a damn good indication that I survived my weekend adventure. What you can’t see is that, two days later, I’m still basking in the warm glow of success. Actually, that’s probably still the effect of having caught the sun on Saturday not to mention [...]
Kitcheck
The location for this years LAMM has now been confirmed as being at Glen Lochay – not a million miles away from Endie’s suggestion of Pitlochry, just a little further to the south west. We’ll be going out of Auchtertyre and our guess is that the course will take us to the south west [...]
Mountains of Madness
It’s only ten days or so until I embark on my little adventure north of the border for the LAMM. At this point I should be fit and raring to go. Except that I’m not. Fit that is. I am actually looking forward to it quite a lot but I am [...]
Mountain Marathon II – The Revenge
At the end of October last year, I took part in the Original Mountain Marathon that took place in Galloway Forest Park, Dumfrieshire. The lengthy story of that weekend is still to be told but the short version is this:
We got lost and didn’t finish.
While the experience was useful and it was quite an [...]