The Famished Road – Part III
Hours Since Last Food: 48 hrs Hours Since Last proper meal: 72 hrs Miles Run Today: 10 Miles Run Overall: 25 12:02 Wow, didn’t expect that!
The Famished Road – Part II
The Famished Road – Part II Hours Since Last Food: 24 Hours Since Last proper meal: 48 Miles Run Today: 10 20:18 Just returned from our run today up the beautiful Rio
The Famished Road – Part 1
Its 20:30 on the first day of our “running lean” experiment, and everything is disappointingly normal. I have a light headache but no other discomfort, aside from the fact I am looking a little longingly at some smoked sausages that we have mistakenly left adorned around the galley. I could easily nail all of them. …
24 HOURS TO GO!!!
0500, Sunday 15 January 2012, Tortel, southern Chile, S 47°48 30, W 73°32. 20. I’ve just crawled out of bed. Can’t sleep. I’m writing emails in my sleep that shoot round and round in my head. Piles of dishes collect, stuff slumps onto the floor. All I can think about is the Berghaus Challenge and …
Could you design the worst training plan imaginable . . . ?
If you could design the worst training plan imaginable to prepare for a long distance run, what would it look like? For sure you would put a restriction on the amount of training miles the competitor could run. You would ensure they were physically exhausted by the time they arrived at the start line. Perhaps …
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‘The Pioneers take the arrows, the settlers take the land’.
Dave found this quote the other day, by Amory Lovins, on his fantastic Rocky Mountain Institute website. We’re feeling a bit like that the pioneers at the moment! We’re pretty sure no one has done anything like the 5000 mile project before. We’re going to have to shed a lot of tears and sweat; nurture some …
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