Bamboo, bamboo, Bam-bleedin-boo, everyone is going on about it as if it’s the latest saviour to improve out lives, you can build with it, wear it in clothes and sunglasses, join a society in its honour, roll around in it conducting your private life, and now even wipe your bum with it! But whats that …
Got a lovely message from Dean Karnazes today, nice to have support from someone named by TIME magazine as one of the, “Top 100 Most Influential People in the World,” especially as training is beginning to hurt a little! Dear Kath & Dave, Best wishes on your incredible adventure. I am awe inspired and
I like running. I haven’t always felt like this. There was the burning stitch during school cross country runs; triathlons of endless
For people interested in what the expedition kit list looks like there here it is, warts and all, and our current status in assembling it as of 1200 today. I had wanted to include a full listing of weights etc for real kit nerds but will do so once everything is finally assembled. Each gram …
We have declared up front that the expedition is unsupported – but what does that mean in practice for life day-to-day on the 5000mileproject? With no sherpa, no support car, no horse and trap, no battlebus or winnibego to carry all our gear how do we propose to move from a to b, then c …
Click on the map below to bring up a 60 second video of the 5000 miles we will follow through South America!!!!
We all have them: Flat, podgy, arched, bunioned, blistered, soft or smelly…. FEET Whether trotting on stilettoes or shovelled into wellington boots they are rarely ‘nude’; 100% on show. But what I had not really considered was that at one stage, back in our dim tuber/impala-guzzling past, they were splendid leathery tools, pounding the savannah and …
Our training ran into a problem last night. . . Dogs!!! We set off later than planned and ended up heading out through the suburbs of Juan Lacaze in the night time. As a runner you create a level of unwanted attention at all times, normally humans being the biggest issue. But at night time, …
As a general rule, as runners Kath and I tend to fall into the old school of nutritional fulfillment – eat plenty of good fresh food (emphasis on the plenty!), prepare as much as possible your self, listen to our bodies requirements and respond quickly, and keep clear of nutritional supplements unless absolutely necessary. The …
Eddie Izzard would be proud of us. Our training regime goes from bad to worse.