At 26 years old, Tom Aikens was the youngest chef ever to earn a Michelin star. But for this veteran of the Virgin London Marathon and the Marathon des Sables, it's not enough for food to merely taste spectacular - it should boost your fitness, too
A quick update today as we're hoping to have the full story from our Marathon des Sables challenger himself when he returns to RW Towers later this week.Jamie completed the MdS in a total time of 39 hours and nine minutes. The marathon stage he
Here at RW Towers we haven't had any emails from Jamie just yet... But the online tracker on the Marathon des Sables website (darbaroud.com) shows him as having completed Stages 1 and 2 and sitting in 330th place. Considering there are 849
of James Cracknell doing the Marathon des Sables, throwing up, cramping and looking like he came within an inch of his life my first thought was – I wonder if I could do that?!In February I will attempt my first ever ultra marathon, a 34 mile multiterrain
to 500ml of water, you'll get a whopping 59 servings from the bottle. During a tough week when I was running the Marathon des sables in the Moroccan Sahara, I used it daily and didn't have any problems with cramping or dehydration. What I liked most
took this to the desert (on my recent Marathon des Sables challenge) to give it a real going over. Aside from the weight, it faired impeccably. I felt confident throwing it in the bag during the runs and when it came down to the snaps it was both easy
des sables What would you do differently? And indeed what was the key to your success? I'd try not to get the trots. Don't know exactly HOW. Also control water drinking a bit more, as I needed a pee most of the way, which was conveniently relieved
Desert Race: Marathon des SablesThe 700 runners who wake up one March morning in Southern Morocco for the Marathon des Sables (MdS) are faced with vast expanses of wind-swept flatland, strength-sapping sand dunes and the prospect of six days spent
for the finish, remind yourself that it could be worse – you could be heading up the mountain rather than down. www.everestmarathon.org.uk AfricaMarathon des Sables, Morocco This punishing stage race has become a rite of passage for many runners who
when preparing for the Marathon des Sables – my first-ever endurance race.“The French organisers being French, of course, stubbornly refused to translate any of their notes into English. “And my French being what it was, I had to translate
