James Elson

This race was designed to be the second step in training & experience towards the UTMB100 in August. Rocky Raccoon was a good way to lea...

With the Old Dominion 100 round the corner first weekend of June I've stepped up the training again. Over the last 4 weeks I've mana...

Well I felt strong all day today after such a great day yesterday. I got up early and drove what turned out to be a long way to the start li...

I've trained erratically this year. Just looking back over my log for 09 to date I've averaged only 150 miles per month which is fra...

After Rocky Raccoon I took a week off pretty much entirely and then did a couple of hours at the start of the next week which felt ok. I rea...

A couple of days before the race I booked a hire car from Houston airport and a hotel just off of the side of the I-45 freeway, packed a lot...

I decided to rest the three weeks left in December after the Last Desert, drank a lot, got ill and started again at the beginning of January...

The third chapter in the tale of the 4 deserts finished at the perfect time for me. When the 5th and final stage of the Last Desert got canc...

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...