For those who know me or follow me on Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn you might have grasped that after adventure stuff my next big passion is cake. It’s actually a large reason that I train. I have a sweet tooth. Without training I’d be a proper bifta. Anyway, I was woken by the postie this morning with a …
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Arrowhead 135 race report
The Arrowhead 135 ultra race has been rated as one of the toughest races on earth by National Geographic. Having spoken to a few competitors at the race briefing the night before I discovered that the calibre of runners was phenomenally high with several touting that they had completed most of the iconic ultra races …
Arrowhead 135 ultra route map
[tweet username="leepeyton" layout="horizontal" text="Arrowhead 135 route map"][fblike layout="button_count" show_faces="false" action="like"] After travelling for the best part of 16 hours yesterday I finally arrived in International Falls, Minnesota, the start point for the Arrowhead 135 ultra. It’s cold but nothing like as bad as I expected (overnight it was only minus 6 C). I’ve been …
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone
Agreed so much with this that I thought I’d share it again. Thanks to Jurema Mosquera for posting this a couple of months back.
The Sally Challenge 2011
A couple of months have passed since the inaugral Sally Challenge, which took place at the beginning of September. Time for blisters to heal, muscles to relax and for myself to get over the horror of having a video camera shoved in my face. With Garry Mac describing the event as “just a bike and …
NY2SY update
Popped along to Castle Street in Edinburgh today to catch up with Niall Iain Macdonald who is gearing up to row solo across the North Atlantic from New York to Stornoway in 2012. For more info on what he’s doing you can check out our ocean rower interview he did with us and have a look …
Interview with a legend of adventure, Tim FitzHigham
Today’s interview is with eccentric adventurer Tim FitzHigham. In the words of The Guardian, “Tim FitzHigham is part comedian, part old-school gentleman adventurer“. His achievements include rowing the English Channel in a Thomas Crapper bathtub; breaking a 383-year old record by undertaking the longest ever journey in a paper canoe; pioneering endurance Morris Dancing; inflating …
Aiming for the Arrowhead
This week, coinciding with the first Scottish snowfall of the season, sees me gearing up and getting ready to apply for the Arrowhead 135 Ultra, a 135 mile race across Northern Minnesota in the Good Ol’ US of A, in the middle of winter. There are a range of disciplines: bike (bugger that), ski (can’t) …
Carry the flame
This month both myself and Garry have been nominated to carry the Olympic torch as part of the Olympic Torch Relay. This is a great honour but to an extent we feel like a pair of frauds as we’ve both been nominated in the ‘Charitable Work’ category. Over the past seven or eight years we’ve …