So, many blogs are being released at the moment, looking back at the ups and downs of the last year and reminiscing about what transpired, or perhaps what should have been. Now it is time to produce my version of events. Targets This time last year I set myself a number of targets: 2012 km … [Read more…]
In the time waiting for delivery of suitable imagery for this post to embellish my blog I have had the opportunity to compose my thoughts on the weekend’s challenge, and I am still struggling to find the words that do full justice to the experience. Perhaps those words simply do not exist yet! I left … [Read more…]
Something has come to mind recently having participated in the MK marathon last weekend and Strongman Run this weekend, and that is the exorbitant cost of event photos. This comes from a photography degree student, who gets very annoyed when people gasp at the cost of wedding photographers because they fail to realise just how … [Read more…]
Just one & 1/2 working days till I head off to Stansted to fly to Germany and (at time of writing) 53:09:32 till the horn goes off to start the 2012 Fisherman’s Friend Strongman Run. They’ve been posting tonnes of photographs on twitter, but because they use instagr.am which has recently been bought up by … [Read more…]
And so, finally race day arrives. So far this year I have very nearly reached the sum total of 2011’s running before the fourth month of 2012 is even finished – and pretty much every single step run since Christmas has been building to this one day at the end of April. Somewhat ironically last … [Read more…]
The last obstacle in the Fisherman’s Friend StrongmanRun at the Nurburgring in Germany in May. And here it is at last – the final obstacle of the 2012 Fishermans Friend StronmanRun in Germany. The as yet unnamed obstacle 15: And whilst the description may be lacking a little something in the translation I think the … [Read more…]
The next obstacle in the Fisherman’s Friend StrongmanRun at the Nurburgring in Germany in May. The penultimate obstacle at this years StrongmanRun is provided by the events sponsors Brooks, and involves…. yet more hay bales 🙂 This looks to be all about up and over, up and over, up and over and over and over … [Read more…]
The next obstacle in the Fisherman’s Friend StrongmanRun at the Nurburgring in Germany in May. Instead of ducking under, this time we’re going up-and-over. All the while picking up extra mud to make up for any we may have lost since the last mud obstacle. Here are some people having fun in the mud at … [Read more…]