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Category: Tim’s Adventures

  • Some stats from my rickshaw ride

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    Distance travelled: 1,001 milesCurrent World Record: 950 miles Average daily distance: 40 miles (not including rest days)Longest day: 74 miles (roughly Hereford to Oxford)Average speed: 7.71 mphFastest day: 9.82 mph (Aldershot to West Molesey, 33 miles)Slowest day: 5.23 mph (Shrewsbury-Bishop’s Castle, I blame the girl running with me)Top speed: 28.8 mph (may have been faster…

  • The Sight of Solitude – Part II

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    And so it was with the familiar blend of apprehension and coursing adrenalin that I followed the trailing rope across the glacier and towards our latest foe: the 5,700-metre high Cerro Sofia whose summit lay to the left hand side of a snowy col whose imposing wall rose in front of us. The sun, risen…

  • The Sight of Solitude – Part I

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    I awake with a searing pain in my eyes. Without a background in chemistry or any medical knowledge whatsoever, I imagine that this is what it’s like to bathe ones eyeballs in a dilute solution of something rather acidic. Sun cream? A few weeks of being outdoors in the elements had left my skin a…

  • 100 pounds, 36 Tweets

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    Being a budget expedition, I kept track of my £100 hitch-hiking adventure in February by Tweeting with the free text messages I get on my mobile phone. This is the story in bite size chunks: I am setting off with the bag on my back and £100 in my pocket – http://twitpic.com/137pf4 Result. Bus driver…

  • Tubes in Tweets – Part II

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    Twitter really is the best way to generate live updates as we run the Tube. Here are some updates from the last few runs: Northern Line – February 28th, 29 miles, 5.5 hours The first twinges of cramp creep into each calf moments before the final whistl. Not what I need before running the Northern…

  • Bid for my rickshaw!

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    The rickshaw I used to cycle 1000 miles from the Highlands back to London is being auctioned for charity this week. It may be pending Guinness World Record status but it is, in my books, already the stuff of legend having been pushed so hard, so far and so fast. It’s fully functioning and ready…

  • Three British Olympic Athletes skiing to the South Pole

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    I ran an advert a couple of months ago looking for a British Olympian to join an expedition to the South Pole that I’m organising to coincide with the London 2012 Games. Well, I actually got quite a bit of interest from an exciting range of athletes and have finally picked one. Specifically, Derek Redmond.…

  • A Different Epiphany

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    These things happen like an avalanche. A sense of foreboding. The tiniest of movements. And before you know it, the world is in freefall. I set off this morning on a low. Emails were typed without feeling. Conversations were held without engagement. I went out on my bike with a familiar urgency to just BE…

  • Should we abort?

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    Heaven opens the sluice gates and eight pairs of knuckles turn white as they cling to poles in an attempt to keep the tent earthbound. Someone breaches the silence with the words we had already heard all too loudly in our own heads: “Should we abort?” We’re not at Advanced Base Camp on K2. Nor…

  • An irrational hatred of traffic lights

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    On the A3 near Kingston-upon-Thames, there is a pedestrian footbridge that crosses the road. When following the cycle lane down from Tibbet’s Corner, if I want to turn right up Kingston Hill I used to have two choices: charge across three lanes of A-road when the coast was clear, or carry my bike over the…

  • Join us for the final Tube run – 5km in fancy dress

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    As you may know, myself and my friend Laura have been running the length of every Tube line in London over the course of the year. We’ve run 8 out of the 12 lines so far, covering 134 miles of track, 179 miles of actual running, passing 162 Tube stations and through 24 London Boroughs.…

  • A Day on the Jubilee Line – Part II

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    “I think we should do it”, Laura said, determined. And everything changed. With the acceptance that it was happening, my body put itself into the appropriate gear and set about moving its way north west to Stanmore. Through the crowds by the London Eye, over a busy Westminster Bridge and a busier Parliament Square. Amidst…