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 […]

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 […]

UK Athletics Heroes

Recently, I have been given one of the most rewarding tasks within my role at work and this is to help 6 young rising athletics stars, all under the age of 18, to help them on their way to winning medals at the London 2012 Olympics. This is something that is extremely close to my […]

24 Heures Du Mans

Our mission: the transportation of 4 thrill seeking speed demons to Le Mans. Our goal: get there safely of course, experience the thrills & spills of a 24hr race and understand the literal definition of ‘beer mountain’. So how did we fare? The tamest part of the trip was easily the lolling ferry from Hull […]