THAILAND POWER OF TEN UPDATE – 1 DEC
When the dust has settled. It has been go, go, go every day, up early and hitting the road, running the 50 Km per day- suddenly 20 days later and the 1000 km the run ends at Cave lodge. Fortunately it was only a 4 day
Thailand Power of Ten Update – 21 Nov
The real challenge The (TU) Thailand Ultra Out here they call it the beast – 100 km of unrelenting jungle covered hills, mud roads, ravines and the best humidity that Thailand can offer all baked into a monster by the unrelenting sun. I have just been sitting in
Thailand Power of Ten Update – 17 Nov
Yes I miss… There are many of us out there pushing our minds and bodies to the limits, testing the limits of our own personal frontiers, fighting those inner demons that torment and torture us every day. We all have them, not just in extreme conditions, many of
Thailand Power of Ten Update – 16 Nov
Rain forest As we begin to climb with serious altitude now, slowly the landscape begins to unfold below us. The road winds and snakes up and up the mountainside, massive trees perch out of the forest canapé like sentries guarding the sacred path to the top. Every now
Thailand Power of Ten Update – 15 Nov
Rolling hills to Chiang Mai Chiang Mai; just a word we kept throwing around every time someone asked us where we were running to. It was a dot on the map, sounded cool and created quite a stir of disbelief, a head shake and a long babble in
Thailand Power of Ten Update – 14 Nov
Why are we on the road? I must admit that I live every day of the year for this; I will put my head down and toil, day and night every day of the year. It doesn't matter, it’s worth it, to get time off to hit the
Thailand Power of Ten Update – 9 Nov
Road Mind With any of these adventure runs, the mind plays the biggest part. You can plan and plan and plan as much as you want, try and work out a route to follow, where to stay and the rest – I am sorry, none of this will
Thailand Power of Ten Update – 8 Nov
On we roll It was a real slow start for me – to be honest I was worried. I had pulled a calf muscle on the top of Table Mountain in training 4 weeks before we left. So it’s been Physiotherapy and acupunctures every second day, instead
Thailand Power of Ten Update – 7 Nov
The local police. The word police in a foreign country does bring up little beads of sweat on my brow if I think of what I have been through on these trips. The most recent, etched in my mind vividly was in Cuba; probably the most aggressive and
Thailand Power of Ten Update – 2 Nov
Why we are winding around the place. When one heads out on an adventure, you don’t want to end up running mega asphalt freeways – getting fried from radiated heat off the ground. Have your life shortened by ten years due to mainlining on diesel smoke. The