Dealing with failure and The Transatlantic Way
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.
blogs about my own adventures
Courchevel Mountain Triathlon
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…
Beaufortain Traverse Ski Tour
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.
A Year of Adventure: 12 challenges for 2017!!!
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!
Hard decisions in the Transcontinental saga!
So recently I had to make the decision whether to enter the Transcontinental (TCR) again in 2017, having failed to complete the race in both 2015 & 2016, or defer it for another year. There is no way this race can or will go unfinished, BUT I was questioning whether racing again in 2017 was the right decision. Of course we ride our bikes in races like the TCR to push ourselves physically and mentally, but ultimately we enter because we LOVE cycling! I was worried that if I go straight back into doing the TCR again, with the pressure I put myself under to succeed and do well, the race could become more of a chore rather than a passion, which is not what it is all about!
Easyjet – Secret life of Adventurers
‘The Secret Life Of Adventurers’ was a fun article out in the September edition of the EasyJet on flight magazine. I have no idea how I made the cut alongside such adventure royalty as; Ranulph Fiennes, Bear Grylls, Uelli Steck, Alain Robert, Borge Ousland etc… but it seem’s I was the only one that mentioned Strictly Come Dancing, Whitney Houston, petticoats & high heels 
(Girlie to the core!)
Top Tips for ‘Everesting’ by Bike
EVERESTING – a fiendishly simple concept, and a fiendishly difficult ride to complete. Pick any climb, anywhere in the world and ride repeat after grinding repeat until you have notched up 8,848m vert. In one ride.
Mont Ventoux 3 Sides
Fully recovered from Transcontinental Race sickness (…well maybe not my disappointment, but physically recovered) so time to get back on the bike. So here are some pics from yesterdays 3 sides of Mont Ventoux day out and I feel much better for it.
Great Walk of China Documentary
A story of adventure and self discovery. The Great Walk of China is a one hour documentary recounting my life changing journey, leaving behind my life as a model to become the first person to walk the 4500km length of the Great Wall of China. Battling sand storms, blizzards, temperatures from +40ºC to -35ºC, frost bite, starvation, exhaustion and dehydration and narrowly escaping with my life on one harrowing occasion.