Vango Tempest 200 tent – Gear Review

The porch was also a deciding factor in buying this tent – it’s large enough to cook in when the weather is atrocious and the door is arranged so that a gap can be left for ventilation.  At night it’s perfectly roomy enough to stash 4 panniers, although I prefer to keep them inside the [...]

A change of name

I’ve changed to name of this blog due to realising that most of my posts thus far have relayed to running and not ( as I initially intended ) preparation for LEJOG 2010. Sure, the running’s part of the prep work but the blog title “Land’s End – John O’Groats 2010″ was a little restrictive [...]

Weekly mileage – 26/09/09

Commute: 27 m Bike@work: 24 m Runs: 10 m Total Joolz leg-powered travel : 61 m   Fairly quiet week, training-wise. Just a steady base of activity with nothing fancy added.

This week’s ‘long’ run/stumble/crawl…

I set out with the intention of running 7 miles…and managed to, eventually! Had to stop and walk twice, for a bit – and the massive hill at the end of my run was pretty testing, but I did it. Amazingly, I finished with no physical injuries, just incredibly exhausted and thirsty (depsite having consumed [...]

Weekly mileage – 19/09/09

Commute: 68 m Bike@work: 8 m Runs: 9 m Total Joolz leg-powered travel : 85m I had a big, bad-ass commute on Monday, 25 miles each way to a training course. I’ve done it before,  and although this time my knees faired batter afterwards, my exhaustion-level was pretty bad! At 2 hours each way, it’s only [...]

Weekly mileage – 12/09/09

Commute: 18 m Bike@work: 83 m Runs: 8 m Total Joolz leg-powered travel : 109m I’ve been riding my bike as much as possible, trying to get a base level of fitness to prepare me for the proper long-haul training. I’m lucky because I get to ride at work too, although on a mountain bike, [...]

Why this blog exists

A thought occured to me a few weeks ago…wow, fancy cycling Land’s End to John O’Groats; that would be crazy/immense/impossible/exciting/scary/dangerous/exhausting/all of the above. Then the clincher; Well, if so many other people have done it, there’s no reason why I can’t! And so the ball started rolling on what has inevitable become my next ‘project’. [...]