On Sunday 27th September at 7:43pm I climbed Swain’s Lane for the 125th time to finish an almost 22 hour effort to climb the equivalent height of Everest on a small, but steep hill in North London. Hatched as part of a wider plan to raise money for the charity Move (you can donate here),…

Norseman is a point-to-point triathlon in Norway that starts with a jump from a car ferry into a fjord and a 3.8km swim to shore, followed by a 180km cycle with ~3,500m of elevation and finishes with a 42km run up a mountain. The 250 general entries to the race are awarded on a ballot…

Omey Island is a small island just off the West Coast of Ireland near a village called Claddaghduff where my dad is from. The island can be accessed by “road” when the tide is out and my family once had to abandon a car on the island and wade back to the mainland which was…

“FIENDISHLY SIMPLE, YET BRUTALLY HARD. EVERESTING IS THE MOST DIFFICULT CLIMBING CHALLENGE IN THE WORLD.” That is probably a bit of an exaggeration but when trying to come with ideas for fundraising it was something that struck me as being worthy of a few pounds for charity – click here for fundraising page. WHY? At the start…

In November I spent three weeks volunteering in an organic vegetable garden in Parque Patagonia. The park is owned by the Tompkins Foundation and will eventually be donated to the Chilean state to form part of a larger national park. The garden provides vegetables to the restaurant in the park and the volunteer program not…

I finally made it! After initially delaying my trip by a week on doctor’s and physio’s orders due to my bad leg and the impact the ironman may have had on my immune system, I set off for the airport on Monday morning (July 11th). The train I had planned to take from London Bridge…

I finished my first iron-distance triathlon last Sunday 26th June and I need to write everything down otherwise I’ll forget it so this post is really for me and I figured I may as well share it. It was an amazing(ly long) day and is certainly the thing I’m most proud of. Nearly everything I’ve done…