7 days ago an intrepid group of individuals, event organisers and Icelandic support crew set off to traverse Iceland from North coast to south coast. I will post separately here on individual days later but the short story is that we finished it successfully. Despite terrible weather on day 2,

So, that's the Cape Wrath Ultra conquered!. Eight days of unrelenting rain, wind and cold temperatures. But what an adventure.   Day 1 - having done this day before I was completely familiar with what was ahead.  However this time, rather than the high temperatures of 2021, it was rain and

So come Jan 3rd I will be committed to training again for the CWU in Scotland. Follow my progress here. Rough planning looks like this: * End of Jan 2022 - @ 50-75km weekly (at least 2 weeks consecutively) - @5-@10km splits * Feb - gym, stairs, legs, weight loss program and

The year 2021 was a disaster for millions of people, so I wont make light of that. This is a round up of 2021 for me and includes the final report and update on the charitable donations from all my generous friends and colleagues for the victims of the Pa'Derung

With a weeks holiday coming to a close, I decided to go for a long run - to check where physical ailments would show up as I extend distance.  This was essentially a road run on paths - all flat. Weather was forecast for cloud and no rain - perfect.

So, once I finished the 150km week, I took a week off.  Not a good idea. First day back after 7 run free days (2 rounds of golf though), I ran 15, 10, 15 on the Monday. Tuesday, I woke up with really heavy legs but managed 15 in the

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reached 150km this week. But its hard at the end.  Legs take about 10 minutes to get going at the beginning of each run.  After that they just get to a pain threshold which is comfortable.  No injuries, no strains, just a steady pace, keeping heartrate around 135-140 if

Successfully managed 100km in 5 days,: 4 x 20km (2 x 10km), 1 x 20km Target now is to get to 1150km per week by end March.  To try and ensure no overdoing it (keep average heartrate around 140bpm) the weeks will go like this: * w/c 1st - 75km

The Cape Wrath Ultra has, because of indications from England, and no indications from Scotland, been postponed 2 months until the 1st-8th August. I guess we were all expecting it but nevertheless its too far to continue the same build up, but not far enough to slow down the training

CWU update status

This blog/page will document my journey to (of course) completing the Cape Wrath Ultra, 400km over 8 days through the highlands of Scotland. Stay tuned...

I write this 4 months into the largest global crisis that has hit the world in living memory (more than a generation), with lost lives, lost jobs, lost businesses, and the inability (through government intervention) for face to face human interaction (for at least more than 2 at a time)

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