Original Source Mountain Mayhem Training – Ben Harris

    In preparation for what will certainly be the event of the year my training has stepped up a level in the past weeks. I have been working hard to loose some weight to improve my speed on the bike – but it is harder than you would think!    Events wise I entered the […]

Portland Half Marathon

This challenging event took place on the infamous Isle of Portland in Dorset, known for it’s rocky terrain and unforgiving weather conditions at the best of times. It was more like escaping from Alcatraz! both locations being well known as “The Rock” – and what an apt nick name it was on this cold morning. […]

2008 HellRunner

  Vincent Price said it best in MJ’s Thriller – ‘the foulest stench is in the air, the funk of 40,000 years’ – this is a perfect description of how the Original Source Bog Of Doom smelt as I plunged feet first in, disappearing to almost shoulder height and with my mouth firmly shut!  But this bog […]

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 […]

Mountain Mayhem

Phewee. We’ve just about recovered from a MONUMENTAL weekend at Mountain Mayhem 2008. Thanks guys for letting us take part! We pitched up on Friday 20th June, girding our loins and gritting our teeth for the enslaught of 24 hours pelting hamster-esque around a notoriously muddy and fairly technical track come rain or shine, light […]