Cycling from John O’Groats to Land’s End
In the life of every outdoor fitness junkie, there are days when the whole world
looks exciting, interesting, fun and the smile rarely leaves your lips. No
challenge is too great!
However, when you have 948 hard pedalled miles behind you,
It takes grit and determination to ski tour to the equivalent height of Mount Everest. But the Everest in the Alps challenge is something else. I explain the 10 things you need to know in order to succeed.
How do you go about training for a ski mountaineering challenge that will take you up the height of Everest, when you have two young children, one of which is a newborn? With difficulty!
I’m the first to admit that running an ultra marathon is on the whole a mental game. However, one also has to know when mind over matter can actually cause more harm than good. Your mind can get you to the finish, but it’s your body that takes
Every ultra runner has a moment of madness, normally the point at which they
enter some ridiculous sounding race that promises misery, blisters, injury and
at worse, possible death. Despite having done numerous ultras across deserts,
jungles and mountain ranges, my biggest folly was entering the 3rd edition of
the
Getting up at 4am on a bank holiday Sunday is probably most people’s idea of
hell. However when my alarm clock went off alerting me it was still dark, I had
an excited yet nervous energy in tackling a not-your average kind of sportive
cycle ride. My friend Charly
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