In 1977 my brother Nigel and his friend Geoff Hunter circumnavigated Iceland in a pair of kayaks that Nigel had designed and build specifically for the purpose.
You can now read the story at https://sites.google.com/site/icelandbykayak1977/
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Three of us ran off into the gathering darkness last night and re-emerged this morning, slightly damper and not so very refreshed from a questionable night’s sleep! We gathered at Dai’s place in Patcham for a weigh-in last night with both Daren’s pack and mine showing 7.8kg. Dai’s was 1kg lighter, but then he’s not [...] At the end of our run on Monday, there was a short exchange that has set some very particular wheels in motion. Well, legs really. Up until that exchange, Daren had been looking for someone mad enough to run the Tour d’Mont Blanc with. ‘Nuff said? Bearing in mind that the TMB route is circa [...] Strangely, despite the severity of the run today, the reference to running stich is not passing comment on our dubious fitness levels, but rather on our poor needlework skills. After a typically lengthy absence, it was an honour today to run with The BIG Man, fresh from his travels and travails. The BIG man’s [...] I was due to help a neighbour move a concrete shower tray (double-size) at 8.40am this morning so I got out good and early for a short run. I’ve not run for two weeks and I think that a combination of heat over that time and no exercise has been leading to a little unusual [...] Broken: Well this was how I felt as I ran the last few miles to the finish line, knowing full well that not only was I going to miss my target time for the day, but that I was also going to be slower than my previous marathon time, by a full twelve minutes. And [...] Inspired by Daren’s recent ascent of the Grouse Grind in Vancouver, which rises 933m in a distance of 2.9km, I [stupidly] decided to replicate his feat right here in Blighty. I scoured the map for likely candidates and the only hill that I could find with that gradient was Wolstonbury, which I stormed back in [...] … enties will go live from the 23rd June, at 10am. For any further information please go to brightonmarathon.co.uk. If there are any futher questions, please leave a message after the tone.” Blah blah blah… So, after redialling about 120 times in about 40 frustrating minutes, I returned to the website which now had an [...] I fully intended to run this morning, but there was ice on the car outside and I wimped out. Which was a real shame, as the ice had melted by the time the dawn broke and it really wasn’t that bad when I walked to work. The upside was that It did get me thinking of some blues lyrics! [...] Those of you who know my brother Nigel, might be interested to read this. The rest of you might like to see the photos. |
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