Monthly Archives: August 2008

Tough Guy

There are some people in this world that are just nutters. Anyone brave or mad enough to participate in this year’s Nettle Warrior ‘Year of the Iron Fist’ falls in to this category. Part of Tough Guy Ltd, it is the genius of an ex-serviceman, Mr. Mouse – an oxymoron if ever there was one. […]

A walk in the Pyrenees

I am a glutton for punishment. Why I do this to myself, I do not know. My holiday this year has just been and gone so I thought I’d let you know what I got up to. I decided to walk part of the GR11 – the alpine track which splices France and Spain. We […]

Henley Royal Regatta

Ahh, the typical British summer – Ascot, Wimbledon, The Original Source Manchester Urbanathlon, & of course Henley Royal Regatta. Folk from all walks of life with their finest frocks on show, being battered by the great British summer weather! For those unfamiliar with the event, it is a 5 day rowing event held in the […]

Original Source Urbanathlon

10k….bollocks that was 10k! Never have I felt so destroyed and taken so long or felt so much of a buzz after doing a “10k run”. There might have been walls to climb, cars to jump, haystacks to stumble down, drains to crawl through and pools of oranges to wade through, but for me the […]