The Next Challenge

Tag: Motivation

  • 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…

  • Three world-beating cyclists

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    Having worked for a couple of years in the Royal Geographical Society, steeped as it is with the rich heritage of great British exploration and frequented still by the modern world’s most exciting expeditioners; and spending so much of time reading and writing about adventurous people and their achievements, it’s easy to become blase about…

  • Do it for yourself (but not on your own) – Guest Blog: Julie Abrams-Humphries

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    There is nothing I enjoy more than “ordinary people” do extraordinary things and thus you can imagine my joy when I came across She Who Dares. They’re a group of women of all ages and abilities who meet up midweek and do cool, adventurous stuff. I contacted Julie, their Chair, and she kindly wrote this…

  • Catch the Worm – Everyday Adventure #5

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    It has been too long since I last challenged you to an Everyday Adventure. I hope you have been squeezing the juice out of life these past months but I fear you may have let it slip you by. What have the last few weeks held for you? If the answer is some permutation of…

  • 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.…

  • Nice to be nice

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    You’ll see on the right hand sidebar of my website, there are two lists of Popular Posts. They’re calculated based on a couple of measures such as the amount of people that read them and the number of comments that are made on them. I like having them there as I think it helps draw…

  • How Eddie Izzard changed the nation

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    Eddie Izzard did a run for Sport Relief last year. If you’ve not heard of Eddie, he is probably best known as a stand-up comedian and not at all for his sporting prowess. If you didn’t hear about his run, then you should Google it. He ran 43 marathons in 51 days. He did not…

  • Step by Step, Tweet by Tweet

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    I walked to work with my friend Ewan Laurie back in March. 20 miles overnight in support of Money for Magadascar. I documented our little adventure by Tweeting through the night. Here’s the story… Time for a tactical power nap before tonight’s commute Beautifully clear night. Let’s hope it stays that way for tonight’s walk.…

  • Why I wish I had more money (but am glad that I don’t)

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    I wish I had more money so that I could… Go to the South Pole without having to get a corporate sponsor Eat more healthily Make purchases based on a provider’s service, ideals, ethics, location and where they source their materials (rather than just its price) Buy the new Vampire Weekend album (and give them…

  • Bigger, Stronger, Faster

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    My forearms rest over the handlebars and my head is down. My body rocks from side to side and my legs keep turning over. I look ahead at the rising road and subdue a smile with gritted teeth. In the pub last night, the guys propping up the bar all had the same response when…