Tag Archives: Running the Tube

These Boots Are Made For Walking

These Boots Are Made For Walking

The above image depicts my recently retired running shoes. I had been using them regularly since the summer of 2007. They were kindly donated by Decathlon Surrey Quays for my “real world” triathlon from London to the Isle of Wight and, after almost four years of use and abuse, they finally came to an end [...]

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Top 10 Expedition Highs

Wave of glory, Crib Goch, Snowdonia

Lying beneath the stars in the Inylchek Valley, my first night out on my first big expedition Cresting the final hill after 18 months’ preparation and 14 hours of cycling, swimming and running, to see a huge crowd gathered outside Thom’s house to mark our arrival Reassembling my bike outside Stansted airport Arrivals to finish the [...]

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Running All the Tube Lines

Just a quick update for those of you that haven’t been following Stephen Wright‘s progress. Steve is currently running between every single Tube station in London. Unlike mine and Laura’s Running The Tube project last year, Steve is breaking the lines into chunks to ensure he visits every station (Laura and I missed about a [...]

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2010 Review – A Year of Adventures

How has your year been? As another precious one slides by, I’ve found myself, as ever, wondering how it’s passed so quickly. So, to make myself feel better, I cast my mind back to the adventures I’ve had over the past twelve months. And it’s worked a treat. What a year! This is the first [...]

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Why Run the Tube? / If Not With Words

When I tell people that my girlfriend and I have been spending many of the last eight months’ precious weekends running tens of miles along transport lines through Greater London, they invariably ask “Why?”. If not with words then with silence. Well, I don’t have an answer that is both meaningful and succinct but I [...]

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