Russ told me about the DO Lectures. I'm a big fan of Andy Kirkpatrick. He is more stand up comic than mountaineer sometimes, but has a strange preferance for horrendously dangerous climbs."I just love struggling... I think you see the best in people when they are under pressure, when they are struggling. When they are sat playing Nintendo Wii they are not really...
I am getting some nice long runs in over the Christmas break as I am training for the London Marathon now. But, because the days are packed full of visiting relatives and friends, I set the alarm clock for "early o'clock" and headed out across the fields woods.I ran from Hambledon along the wayfarers walk to Droxford where, beside the River Meon I...
Took a pre-Christmas snowboarding trip with the Pompey crowd.Chamrousse is a smallish resort, near Grenoble, and we had more or less exhausted all the runs by the end of the week. We were treated to an inversion for most of the week, with a blanket of low cloud kindly blocking out Grenoble, and snow peaks poking through all around.Chewbacca Knight and Matt "man...
Training in winter is hard work. Motivation is low because the evenings are dark and its cold and icy. This is when club nights come into their own.Last night we went and did 7 reps of a loop of roads on a steep hillside. We worked hard on the climb, pushed-on along the flat bit, changed to slow jogging down the hill and...
Well, I say cool, it was minus two degrees.DAY ONEI picked him up from the airport on Thursday and we hot-footed it up to the highlands. First stop was the Cruachan Reservoir Power Station Visitor Centre. (It almost goes without saying).Fueled up on veggie soup, and knowledge of pumped-storage hydroelectric power, we took to the trail. Up through a wood, and somehow managing...