This women-running-marathons-thing was only supposed to be a brief entry but when I started writing about it I found myself feeling quite strongly about the implications so here is a third instalment: Raise your hand if you have ever completed a... Read more
Hopping between boulders on a sunny day in the arctic, I was extolling the virtues of my website to a friend when she asked me: “What is it about?” “Well, it’s… err… challanges… um… expeditions... Read more
This women-running-marathons-thing was only supposed to be a brief entry but when I started writing about it I found myself feeling quite strongly about the implications so here is a second instalment: In the TV show Daredevils last week, an... Read more
At the end of each month, I will be listing six blog entries from other peoples’ websites that I have enjoyed and think that you might too: Welcome – Michael Halls-Moore 8 Tiny Ways in which I’m improving my life – Alasta... Read more
Did you know that there was no women’s marathon in the Olympic Games until 1984? The men’s event, in contrast, was part of the inaugural “modern Olympics” in 1896. Women had, of course, run marathons before that but not w... Read more
My legs are pistons, firing repeatedly in a hypnotic cadence, a relentless machine hell bent on speed. Churning the big cog over and over, I’m flying through London at a dangerous rate of knots. The low sunlight reflects off a tower block... Read more
As we enter the final quarter of the year, have you given any thought to what you want to achieve before its end? Here’s my list: Get an article published Write up my ‘Cycling Home from Norway‘ trip Upload all of my expedition... Read more
I knew nothing about about Newton Faulkner other than that he was a singer/songwriter. I loaded up his album, Hand Built By Robots, on Spotify and thought it was great so, last night, I asked my friends if they’d heard of him. “Have... Read more
“It was during that performance of Rigoletto that opera imprinted itself on Katsumi Hosokawa, a message written on the pink undersides of his eyelids that he read to himself while he slept. Many years later, when everything was business, w... Read more
