Tag Archives: endurance races

The Winter Racer – Lee Peyton

I sat in Starbucks waiting for Lee Peyton to arrive. I was nervous, who was I but a little girl carrying a Dictaphone that I didn’t know how to use, and pages of questions to ask the endurance racer. What gave me the right to probe him for information, what did he get out ofContinue reading “The Winter Racer – Lee Peyton”

Marathon des Sables

Published in OutDare Adventures 1 Oct 2012 The progression of an endurance runner: First you go for a walk down your street.  Then you progress to a 10km run, a sprint distance triathlon, followed by an Olympic distance.  Now you do a marathon, a double Olympics even, and then, duh duh duh, the legendary Ironman!Continue reading “Marathon des Sables”

Emrys Davies – The Atacama Crossing

Featured in Beyond Limits Magazine 5th June 2012 The desert? The Atacama Desert? You are going to run across the Atacama desert? This is the place where temperatures summit at 40 degrees Celsius by day and plummet to 5 degrees by night. The place where rain has never fell, where shade has never crept, whereContinue reading “Emrys Davies – The Atacama Crossing”