Category: Tim’s Adventures
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So Far On The Thames
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 have got on swimming the Thames so far. We have covered about 19 miles of swimming. I still…
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Some Touching Expedition Memories
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 at the roadside holding it out for me. That first car that pulled over on an M4…
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A Thames Swimming Story
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 shallow to swim so we ran. Once the water started flowing properly though, we jumped right in.…
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Prove Yourself With An Expedition!
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 world’s greatest conquests. There are times when that self-confidence and assuredness will be essential, just as there…
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Thames Swim Video
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 website went funny when it tried to include the video below in the summary text so I’ve added this pointless sentence. Cheers! Tim.
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A Sunny Summer Sunday
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 cream van. Friends and families feasted and frolicked on the banks of the Thames and we…
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I’m writing a book… Yawn!
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 Get To The North Pole’ or something similar and it will be a collection of guides for iconic adventures like rowing an…
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Flee to the Sea
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 wilderness and yet I know that the capital is by no means the furthest point…
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One Armed Adventures
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 an excuse. I tried to find out exactly what I was and was not supposed to do whilst my wrist…
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The Source
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 month or so back but the source of the Thames is actually some way further west. It’s too shallow to realistically swim…
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London Flat to Essex Beach
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 extended as far as confirming that I wasn’t at the furthest point from the sea. This is how far it might…
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Expedition Report: Around the World in 80 Ways
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 gave themselves seven weeks to do it in and were restricted to using each mode of transport only once. They were funded primarily by a UCL Expedition and Travel Committee…