challenge blog

If you want to fall in love with the U.K. then this is the way to do it. Whether you take 9 days or 23, it’s your journey and your challenge. This is adventure challenge number 5 of 12 for me this year and, so far, it’s my favourite. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not my...

I am four days away from starting the biggest cycle of my life and I honestly can’t decide if I am excited or dreading it. From a physical perspective, and looking at my cycling totals over the last few months, I’m completely and utterly insane. I’ve barely touched my...

Without a doubt I approached this whole endeavour with some naivety. My ego assumed that I could rely entirely on my physical and mental robustness built up thanks to 10 years in the military. Both of these have already been tested. Don’t get me wrong, I will keep...

Well I think that wins the award for most stupid thing I have ever done.  I honestly wanted to remember a time when I had found something harder, ideally in my military career, but I came up stumps. Don’t get me wrong, I have completed endurance challenges before,...

Finished the Paris marathon yesterday. My body is in bits, walking is a struggle and stairs are, again, my nemesis. It was definitely harder than anticipated. I think a lot of people would assume it would be easy after completing an ultra-marathon. Nope, much worse!...

Crikey I’m pretty tired after that. However, weirdly, I think I will recover quicker than when I tried my first ultra last November. Despite being longer, the fact that there was less ascent overall means my legs aren’t in quite as much clip. On the other hand, the...

How is it possible to feel such a deep sense of grief but also be excited for the freedom in front of you? It turns out that so many of us feel this way when we decide to leave the military. The Kubler-Ross grief cycle is real. I attended a career transition workshop...

So, I haven’t blogged in a while, I’ve journaled but, to be quite honest, those notes are a gigantic, cringe-worthy, mind dump, and often make next to no sense! Honestly you’d probably have me sectioned… But I really do want to keep up the blog because it forces me to...

So, I have finally finished reading my book 'high performance', it’s taken me a while as I haven’t been able to get into a calm enough space to stop and read recently. Every time I have planned to read before bed other tasks, like creating social media content or...