Well, we survived. And it was fun - what a bizarre experience today at London’s Kriotherapy centre. It was all a little stressful to begin with, arriving therein a rush and having to go through a quick medical as well as ensure there was no sweat or moisture on our body which might result in […]

Frankly we’re fed up of running round parks (or walking in my case). Lovely as London parks are, we need to step it up now in our highly scientific highly tuned training regime….and so on saturday we shall be descending on the Kriotherapy Center in London….just -130C, nothing much really. In fact i find the […]

I trained tonight - hurah! Except….well it wasn’t quite training….i was in my normal everyday clothes, and it was just walking, albeit quickly. But with my knee, that’s all i can manage. Felt good though, much needed, and i dont feel tired…so hey, at least i’ll probably be able to walk round next week! Small […]

That’s the current temperature at IABP Buoy 25776, 89.621°N 116.951°E - presumably somewhere vaguely close to the north pole as far as i can work out. Nice. Glad I bought the balaclava AND the face mask AND the hat AND the neck gator then. And there i was thinking it was all a […]

You’d think preparing for a trip to the North Pole for what is likely to be a once in a life time experience would be exciting, full of anticipation, and lots of mental daydreaming of what the pole might be like. Not a bit of it. In a remarkably familiar pattern to our scientific pre-Saharan […]

5 short weeks and I’m a married man! 2 short weeks and I’ll have run a marathon on ice - hopefully! time is flying and it feels like there’s been no time to stop and enjoy the ride… just a lot to do and even more worrying about things that need to be […]

I’m going to be glad when the North Pole is over. Less than two weeks and from a personal preparation point of view things could be better. I feel run down and exhausted; There is much still to do; and having got over my achilles injury, i know have an inflamed knee tendon (apparently another […]

Bugger. Bugger. Bugger. Bugger. Bugger. Just when i thought i had got over my achilles - and i have - and another injury strikes. In LA for the weekend [what a f**ked up bizarre place, never been before], and staying near Griffiths Park in the hills of LA. So i thought i would take advantage […]

Hit the road again for my first post Sahara training jog yesterday - a measly 4 miler which more or less finished me off. To make matters worse it feels like I’m getting the flu today. Looks like I’ll have my work cut out for me over the next 3 weeks… On […]

Starting to get organised again… although its taking time to adjust to the mania of London life. Race day pictures below… feels like an age ago!
Sahara marathon 2007 - the starting line…

Seanyboy at 10km - before the suffering…

Kwagga at 10km - looks like I’m suffering already…

It’s strange being back in London. You’d think that after a week spent living in a refugee camp, one would be happy to be back with creature comforts. But far from it, the noise, bustle and cold of london have me left me strangely missing Samara and life there, not to mention the wonderful people. […]

Sean and I touched down in Heathrow at 1 pm today. Feels like a bit of an anticlimax being back - what should I do? Guess its back to the grindstone - website, emails, london underground and chaos in general. The peace and calm of the desert is fading fast and I’m […]

Can´t say it better than Sean… At first when all the teams started packing it in and jumping on buses out of here it felt strange… I wanted to get out of here too. Right now I´m less sure - it feels like a million miles from London. I know we´re going […]

It feels like Ed and I are the only two dogs left in the camp. The marathon and hoopla has ended, the various Italian, German and Spanish contingents have either gone home or moved on to other camps or locations (and we havent thanks to our (dis)organisation), and the camp of Samara has pretty much […]