I did not enjoy the marathon. It was hell. Even though i now have very fond recollections of it, loved the whole build up and atmosphere around it, and would possibly even do it again, i know my mind is playing tricks. OK, so the start with the local men on camels as pace setters, […]

Monday 26 February… the big marathon day! Blisteringly hot… 42 degrees celcius in the sun. Not a breath of wind.
Sean and I started off strongly… toward the front of the pack. We clocked the first 10km in under 50 minutes and the second 10 at roughly the same or even […]

a hastily written blog on an arabic keyboard to say that sean and i survived the sahara 2007 marathon yesterday. blistering heat… aching muscles but we are very pleased to have made it in one piece. we have a lot more to say but blogging is a challenge and this one has been written […]

A mercifully quiet day and night. Much lying around carbo-loading to the nines, got the Iridium satellite phone and data connection working, a short warm up run where we ended up with an enourage of local kids who also wanted to warm up and down ith us, and some formalities of registration and the pasta […]

Its the day before the race. My emotions are all over the shop again… yesterday I was top of the world and very confident…today a little pessimistic and unsure that I can pull this off. Small worries keep plaguing my mind. The niggling shin ache seems like an insurmountable hurdle and […]

After the most relaxing and low-key day Ed and I have enjoyed for the last 8 weeks, disaster struck. We were walking back in from a dusty game of football with local kids when we got the message that the Grain Media boys, the crew who are accompanying us to both marathons, making a documentary, […]

The reality of a refugee camp hit us as soon as we woke up in the Samara camp after our 2am arrival. Dusty, brown mud huts, a quasi-permanent home for these last 25 years for the local people, the nearest water well 12 miles away, nothing sustaining life apart from human spirit. For all the […]

This week has been so mad for all the reasons already described that i am only now looking at the photos we took ourselves from the launch…this one in particular caught my eye….nice and cheesey but great!

Just wanted to add a BIG thank you also to Yes Insurance, our main sponsors, who have been nothing but super supportive, and without whom much of what we’re doing around the EarthFireIce campaign would not be possible. As soon as these guys came on board, so many other things just clicked into place, and […]

WOuldnt it be nice if actually we didnt even need to make any effort for the effects of pledges like the ones we have here on earthfireice.com to be fulfilled. Well, maybe, just maybe, we are beginning to see this, and some long over due common sense prevail. Australia have just announced they are […]

It’s chaos, pure chaos. Dont ever ask Ed or I for advice on how to get ready and prepapred for an extreme marathon, or a trip to the Sahara, frankly we’re useless. I think we expended all our energy on getting this far, and now trying to figure out what might actually be needed for […]

All, a quick note of apologies for the website issues we have had over the last couple of days. They should all be sorted in the next day or so. The site is far from how it should be looking and we know there are still all sorts of issues with the map and pledging […]

These guys are demanding. We had to perform all sorts for them. The indignity of it all, i mean…

The Launch Event was a great success. Ed and i got cling filmed up to the nines, press photographers from the Indi, Standard, PA, Rex and a couple of other newswires showed up, Grain Media filmed up, commuters thought Starbucks had put something extra strong in their frapuucinos that morning, and generally we brought smiles […]

Welcome. And thanks for stopping by. What, you may ask yourself, is all this EarthFireIce (EFI) stuff about? Good question, let me try and explain. EFI at its core is about climate change and it’s about individuals. It’s about why we as individuals care about the planet we live on. Everyone (we hope!) is aware […]