Well, the summer months are drawing to a close and I’ll be out of the country for about six weeks supporting Sarah Outen so this seems like a good point to round up how Laura and I hav... Read more
Casually mentioning to my friend Rob that I was a bit peckish 13 hours into a triathlon then watching him sprint ahead of me (not hard at the point), locate a Mars Bar, unwrap it and stand... Read more
Laura and I are swimming the length of the River Thames And we’d like to take you on a short journey. Come on in! We started at the source of the river. The first 14 miles were too sha... Read more
Expeditions are not and should not be a proving ground for egos. Ego can be a useful tool on expeditions and there can be little doubt in the role that it must have played in some of the wor... Read more
Here’s a little video that my friend Nick from Your Web Media put together of us swimming down the Thames the other weekend. Originally I hadn’t written anything else here but my... Read more
It was a sunny summer Sunday when we loaded our car with a picnic and headed off to the Cotswolds. We paid a princely pound to the parking attendant and took our space in a field with an ice... Read more
Following in some sort of adventurer cliche, I am writing a book. But, before you yawn too loudly, I should stress that it’s not about me! It’s going to be called ‘How To G... Read more
Did you know that in the UK you are never more than 70 miles from the coast? As a Londoner, I found that hard to get my head around. The sea feels a million miles away amidst this concrete... Read more
I fell off my bike in May and broke my wrist in the process. That meant several weeks in a plaster cast. It was frustratingly restrictive but I was determined that I wouldn’t use it as... Read more
We looked down from the bridge and were surprised at just how shallow it was. With a shrug, we started running in the opposite direction. Our Thames swim started ankle deep in Cricklade a mo... Read more
Having read that you are never more than 70-miles from the nearest coastline in the UK, last Saturday I decided to try running from my London flat to the ocean. My route planning only extend... Read more
Abstract In the summer of 2005, two University College London (UCL) students, Tim Moss and Thom Allen, attempted to circumnavigate the globe using eighty different methods of transport. They... Read more
