The sub-two-hour marathon – what do we know about the great British record holder behind it? In the time it took Eliud Kipchoge to prove that No Human is Limited, plastic pollution was pushing for a new record 2000 metric tons of waste dumped into the ocean in less than 2 hours. That’s 8 million…
Two weekends, two contrasting endurance races… 06/02/19 Chester has been on my marathon wish list for a while, a big-small road marathon, very popular amongst runners. I entered impetuously after The Great Welsh Marathon in Spring had left me with unfinished business in terms of getting a time. At the Great Welsh I set my…
The Special Delivery very nearly didn’t make it into my Words&Deeds Lab as I had left the brown dog on Reception Duty and she was camouflaged in the brown shadows under a brown bush in the garden. So, it was a frozen mid motion postie who waved a promising white envelope in my general direction,…
My invitation, courtesy of marvellous promotional staffing agency Mash, was a little short on details, keeping the event itself lightly under wraps. I knew I was going to an event at a new venue, SamsungKX (King’s Cross) and I knew that the venue was definitely not a shop, and that there would be a ‘vertical…
Some invitations have a certain stand out. Could I stomach an egg mayo bagel whilst whirlybirding around the Shard in a stunt helicopter? Okay. Thank you for thinking of me Deliveroo. Put me on that rota. Without so much as Roger Moore eyebrow raise, I accepted this mission. My last invitation to London had been…
August 2019 I have just finished a tour of some of the best places in live in Europe. I’d like to call it an EU tour, but though I travelled seamlessly through it, I did go via Switzerland. Still, we started and finished in the EU. Setting out as a group of four, each leg…
Written in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote in 2016, this letter to Boris Johnson remains as true today, as it was then and as a consequence this letter is often revived online. Now, after the man has finally built his own cabinet, I am reviving it. Not a word of the below has…
An Interview with food and drink revolutionary Craig Sams Fashion, we understand, is cyclical. Certainly, today’s growing enthusiasm for overnight oats and green tea is a phenomenon that 75-year old hip entrepreneur Craig Sams has seen before. Craig’s 1960s saw him fascinated by microbiotic food, driven by the yin and yang of dining and serving…
With the 50-year anniversary of the moon landings being celebrated, I have heard a great deal of opinion about Neil Armstrong and the anxiety his notoriety caused him including one industry expert who then said that Buzz Aldrin had found fame easier to take. Aldrin, now 89, is certainly not a shy personality, but depression…
The Beacon’s Way… tldr – I have just completed my first 100 mile+ ultra, the self-navigating and trail and off-trail route through the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains, with 22,000ft of elevation. I finished in 37hrs and 15 minutes in 16th place in a race which some 66% did not finish and am now the…