It’s taken a while to digest and process the whole experience and now write about it, but I am a Marathon des Sables finisher.

My last blog post before the Marathon des Sables…

I’m an idiot…

I can get a bit geeky about the data.  You may be interested in the stats I gathered while running the Pilgrims Challenge…

My last race before the Big Event. This was the one I was worried about…

It’s been a while…

My first ultra-marathon. This would give me an idea of whether I could actually marathon-length distances on consecutive days. An ultra-marathon is any distance further than 26.2 miles, and the Druid’s Challenge is the length of the Ridgeway, 84 miles in three separate stages over … Continue reading Druids Ultra-marathon

I’m conscious that I haven’t posted for a while and people keep asking me how the training’s going, and whether I got over my motivational hump. I’m happy to report that any blip in enthusiasm is a dim and distant memory. My four-pronged attack of … Continue reading Preparing for my first ultra-marathon, and taper-madness

A story about a bitter personal rivalry

Everything was going swimmingly and then… bleurgh