
Refuge du Saut Dinner Party
The weekend just gone, myself and 7 other girls headed out into the wilderness for a dinner party with a difference!
The weekend just gone, myself and 7 other girls headed out into the wilderness for a dinner party with a difference!
Reflections of 2017 allow me to set my top 3 goals for 2018, as I find new ways to motivate myself and become physically and mentally stronger.
I was recently asked in an interview for RBS, where I suggest to go for a very different kind of travel experience. My response was Svalbard.
So today ‘should’ have been a manically busy day of rushing around, finalising my packing, triple-checking lists. That mixed feeling of excitement and terror in equal measure that comes when you are about to embark on a MASSIVE challenge that is going to push you to all of your limits! Sadly, it’s not to be.
Having just had to scratch from the Transatlantic Way Bike Race, I am currently working on ’dealing with my failure’ and how to not fear future failure.
Corsica first came onto my radar in 2013, when the Tour de France completed the first 3 stages of the 100th tour on the Island. The beautiful arial footage of the Island during the race just blew me away, and I banked it into my memory of ‘must go’ places with my bicycle. Well it
A triathlon consisting of a 14km hill climb by bike with 930m vertical gain, a 6.3km trail run in the snow, a 5km uphill ski with 950m of vertical gain…
My second challenge of 2017, a multiday ski tour across the Beaufortain Massive, was not meant to be an epic endurance test, either physically or mentally but a challenge to face my fears.
Inspired by the wonderful Alastair Humphreys ‘Year of Microadventures’, I have decided to commit to 12 adventures/challenges over the next 12 months. Okay so not all of my proposed challenges for 2017 are ‘micro’, but they also not large scale expeditions that involve being away for months on end or needing large budgets and sponsors. Maybe I should call them 2017’s year of ‘midi’ adventures/challenges!