Dartmoor. 6.30am. Pitch black. We fumbled with our headtorches in the car park. The air was heavy with the autumnal fragrance of wet peat and purple heather. An invisible stream gurgled beneath a ghostly stone bridge. The shrouds of mist parted momentarily to reveal a few scatter...

-country 3%Triathlon 2%Trail races 2%Fell 1%Adventure 1%Ultra 1%I take part in races... Never 21%1-11 times a year 68%12-24 times a year 9%25-52 times a year 2%More than once a week 0%I also do these sports... Gym 16%Swimming 18%Walking (hill walking

adventure on which I was about to embark. There on the misty horizon of my dreams beckoned Royston. What serpentine byways awaited me out there in the uncharted wilderness of South Cambridgeshire? There has always been a bit of a wild man in me.Just like

with adventure running? Or consider giving yourself a dramatic new challenge – for instance, discovering how quickly you could manage 1500m. Think about a big challenge, like a foreign marathon, that seemed improbable or impossible due to your past work

adventures, you just need to know where to go, how to ease into it and a few simple points of etiquette.Where to goThe term 'trail' can mean anything from an easy-to-navigate, flat dirt path to a rock-strewn mountain climb. Bridleways and fitness trails

what are you waiting for? To start your Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run adventure visit the race website to register your entry, book your accommodation and find out about Scotland’s greatest race. (And how you

, fit, young. If he’d beaten me in his first marathon, I’d have had to saw my own head off.As for the others, Denise, after weeks of training through a knee injury, managed a good time, and counts her first marathon among the great adventures of her life

with memories unclouded by lager and Class-A drugs may recall that this Old Etonian ex-tank-commanding erstwhile stockbroker turned trans-continental horserider accompanied me on the Long Day of my Saharan adventure. Surely he, of all people, would be up for a

down in the quest for alum – an all-purpose Philosopher’s Stone, used in the 19th Century for absolutely everything. The alum secret was stolen from the Chinese by Italian merchant adventurers – then from the Italians by Yorkshiremen. Why was it so

As the Trans 333 looms ever closer, a frisson of pure terror is rippling through our little band of British ‘disties’ – we who are either too old, too fat, too lame or generally too congenitally useless to run anything under 100 miles in a time