, incandescent with a spring-like optimism that propelled me back to the meeting. The conversation had moved on to equipment – always a major consideration in endurance events.“…and so,” concluded Henderson, “I would strongly advise that you peruse the list

endured for too long the weight of too much concrete, too many people. We weren’t made to live like this, and the city built upon a mistaken assumption is now sagging – a massive, impossible monument to failure.However, right now, Manhattan is 19 miles up

in the trackless dunes of deserts so wild that no man has subdued them with a name. These abominations I have endured without complaint. But last Sunday was the last bloody straw. It all began with a simple e-mail: how’s the training going for the Trans 333

.”I have to say that by the end of the run I was peeved. Seaton has steadfastly refused me a picture by-line. “Such a flawless physique as yours would only depress our aspiring readers,” he maintains. So I’ve never had to endure the bittersweet

endured more discomfort at the hands of the midges of Cape Wrath than you would in French Guyana (centipedes aside). It was only when I got on the plane that I realised my error. You see, I do this. I charge off on these lunatic escapades and never

would have to endure for the next six days.Thankfully, one of these turned out to be Luke Cunliffe, with whom I had charged around Dartmoor two years earlier in celebration of RW Online Editor Sean Fishpool’s 30th birthday. Unaccountably, he was fat. I