It was minus 2 celcius and I was munching on a huge huge cooked breakfast in a very camp and delightful B and B in Cardiff , it was icy and clear blue day and pretty much as far away physically and thermally as you can get for a desert marathon training day … I couldn’t wait to get started …right after I’d had another round of toast ….and some more coffee….and maybe some more muesli too..as I stared at the stone nude male torso wearing a diamond necklace in front of me. Today was going to be one of … Continue reading Sleeping in a Gay Tardis , Dalek Selfies, Dinosaur footprints and running a marathon with 9 Times World Record holder Rory Coleman

Its a Saturday lunchtime , You’ve got an 8kg rucksack on under an Xmas Pudding Costume and you are running along The Greensand Way  to get to your next checkpoint which is one of 10 pub stops you are visiting . You are hot , tired , a little confused and the Guy next to you dressed as a christmas turkey laughs and  reckons you’ll both die of heat shock before the next pub……as he offers you a hip flask with Advocaat in it…… let me take you back to the previous  day to explain how I found myself in … Continue reading Karma Lager, Enjoying the Hash , Running as a Chumbawumba Christmas Pudding and Why a Pub Crawl is the Perfect Training weekend for the Marathon des Sables