to purchase she kindly let me borrow her sleeping bag. I tested it on for size – see picture, right. It’s as light as a feather and as you can see fits perfectly! For the first time since I started training for the MdS in October I decreased my weekend long
With just days to go now until the race - I fly out to Morocco on Thursday - it is all getting very real!I had some pacing commitments for RW last weekend in Hastings; it saw me pit my wits against the notorious Hastings hill, which was not I was particularly looking forward to g...
of the marathon. My thought process was as follows – I’m no longer having fun, I had made a schoolboy error of not training on hills, the hard work I put into doing the uphill sections were rewarded with downhill sections so steep I had to bum shuffle down them. I
right calf was screaming at me and my ankle was making noises. If it could talk, I would have heard, “F**k you Jamie and your running.”I found myself pondering where I could pull out and how I could get my training partner to pick me up after he
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
