James Elson

The End of the Last Desert: And just like that the Antarctic conditions totally erased all chance of us completing the last two stages on da...

Stage 4: 3 hours in the thickest snow yet kicked off early in the morning. It is 24 hour daylight here therefore the time of day was irrelev...

Stage 3:It was quite clear following the end of Stage 2 which was run on the Antarctic Mainland that the race was going to hot up during Sta...

Stage 2: So stage 2 began on a loop of similar length to the morning. A monster climb before coming back down on ourselves and round a short...

S tage 1: Yesterday morning we finally arrived on the Antarctic continent & immediately departed the boat for stage 1. The zodiac ride o...

Today we got up at 8 30 ate and went back to bed at 9 30. Great times. The only thing we have to do is watch DVD's and we only have 3 sh...

Shortly after my last blog we finally left the dock. Good things. We arrived back at the ship at around 3pm and were told straight away to m...

Well we boarded the ship yesterday evening. Thats where the good news ends. Relatively soon after getting into the cabins we were summoned t...

Arrived here safely last night after 33 hours travelling. Thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it, especially the 13.5 hour flight from Paris ...

T he inaugural London to Brighton race started at 7am in the dark in the middle of a park by the River Thames in Central London in torrentia...

I had written a long e mail to some of my 'endurance racing buddies' across the world so i thought i would recount as much of it (mi...

A 250 kilometre running event which takes place entirely within a landscape & environment used by NASA to test its Martian modules is ne...

A couple of weeks ago I ran a 35 mile race of 7 x 5 mile lap format. There was also a marathon of 5 and a bit laps around the same course ru...

My latest brush with a multi-day event came in the form of a 3 day bicycling race around Puerto Rico, named Vuelta de los nos faros. Tour of...

Missing Kashgar and the finish line

April 6 th – 15th 2006 April 6 th Jim and I set off from Balham with a poor nights sleep no curtains in my room. Have to wear trainers with...