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Category: Living Adventurously

  • One Small Piece of Advice… (Start Running)

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    I frequently get emails from people asking for help with their expeditions – it’s the reason I started this website and the reason there’s a big green button at the top right of your screen offering as much. More often than not, such conversations peter out and I never hear from the people again (with…

  • Everyday Adventure #8 – Reclaim the Night

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    “I’m tired when I get home from work.” “I couldn’t do that sort of thing.” “There aren’t enough hours in the day.” I can’t help with all of the excuses but, with that last one, I can. I happen to agree though. There aren’t enough hours in the day to fit in all of the…

  • What is Trail Rekking?

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    A cross between trail running and trekking, according to my pal Rob Cousins. Here’s a piece he wrote recently for Adventure Travel Magazine about his experiences with a small backpack and a fresh pair of socks somewhere near Annapurna. As you run more and more, your training becomes a little more adventurous.  You’ll go a…

  • ‘Running the Tube’ on TV, midday tomorrow

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    Laura and I completed our attempt to run the length of every Tube line in London last night. Myself as Napoleon and Laura as a Banker, we ran between Waterloo and Bank with a throng of British Lung Foundation supporters and friends dressed variously as Shepherd’s Bush, High Barnet, Angel and Kew Gardens. I’ll write…

  • Lose Yourself – Everyday Adventure #7

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    “I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks” – Daniel Boone, American pioneer and explorer When was the last time you didn’t know exactly where you were? Or at least that you couldn’t find out instantly from your phone or the robotic voice of that device mounted on…

  • Midweek Missions – Part II

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    Everyday Adventures with an outdoor twist. Over the past few months I’ve been writing a series of articles for my favourite outdoorsy website – Outdoors Magic. They’re called Mid-Week Missions and they’re more than a little inspired by the Everyday Adventures campaign. They’re targeted a little more specifically at the mountain-lovers amongst you but hopefully…

  • Adventure, if you believe it

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    If you think that climbing mountains takes years of experience, requires a penchant for suffering and is the preserve of the athletic elite then think again. If a television programme in high definition featuring presenters with mud splattered faces talking in superlatives about the severity of the situation and the extremity of their environment gives…

  • Midweek Missions – Part I

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    Everyday Adventures with an outdoor twist. Over the past few months I’ve been writing a series of articles for my favourite outdoorsy website – Outdoors Magic. They’re called Mid-Week Missions and they’re more than a little inspired by the Everyday Adventures campaign. They’re targeted a little more specifically at the mountain-lovers amongst you but hopefully…

  • Chase the Horizon – Everyday Adventure #6

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    A friend of mine told me about a couple who, once a year, would walk to the horizon. They would look out their window, pick a spot on the line in the distance and set about getting there. I am going to steal that idea for this month’s Everyday Adventure. The horizon is the visible…

  • Suffering free and simply – Six of the Best, June 2010

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    Here are some blog entries from other people’s websites that I have enjoyed or got something from over the last two months and think that you might too. Have a look and cast your votes. Last month‘s winner, I am very pleased to say, was Revolution Cycle’s Someday, all this will be a memory. Probably…

  • Swiss Alpine Marathon

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    My friend Rob has taught me a lot about running and life in general over the last few years. It’s been a privilege to know him but I am not the only person that benefits from his experience. His latest project has seen him work with some long-distance runners from Nepal and he is about…

  • The Vehicle of Poets

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    The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. Christopher Morley   The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. Iris Murdoch   When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the…