Tuesday 11 March, 2008

What a strange few weeks! On Saturday the 26th of January I did my first training session of the year. 6 weeks later, I have...

Friday 21 March 2008

This April it will be ten years to the day that I went blind. From being able to see, to being able to see nothing....

Thursday 27 March 2008

Since last week’s post I have spent the majority of my time in bed sick. A virus for four days with the aches, pains and...

Thursday 10 April 2008

It was exactly ten years ago today that I lost my sight. I have been thinking about it a lot this week for some reason....

Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Previously I said that my attempt to reach the South Pole would involve physical, mental and survival training. I’ve only written about the physical training...

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Since sastrugi entered my conciousness nearly three weeks ago I have been living in fear! Most of what we are doing is somewhat in our...

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Over the weekend I received my training programme for the next seven months and I love it. It is raw, hard training and as...

Friday, 30 May 2008

Recently I have been writing about my fear of the unknown – the terrain that we will face in Antarctica. Last week I did something...

Monday, 9 June 2008

Apart from the challenge of man-hauling more than our own body weight   for up to 16 hours per day over 1,000 kms to the South...

Friday,13 June 2008

The big aim in the last four months has been to avoid injury by cross training – I’ve been ‘getting ready to train’…

Since early...

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Another month has slipped by and there is a growing sense of reality about what I am planning to do. I have now progressed to...

Tuesday, 15 July 2008

The challenge is to race to the South Pole over 1,000 kilometres in the world’s harshest environment. We will man-haul 90 kg sledges (pulks) for...

Friday, 25 July 2008

I woke to the shout of former British Royal Marine Gary: “Let’s go, let’s go, lets go!” Simon and Noel were out of their sleeping...

Thursday, 31 July 2008

Noel dropped off the flat of the plateau and I heard the swoosh of his skis gathering pace. In a split second his pulk (sledge)...

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

I don’t know how I woke but when I did it was too late to go training. Early enough that the start time hadn’t passed,...

Monday, 1 September 2008

“Jan has an idea for some kind of viral marketing campaign” Simon said. He threw this comment in about ten days ago as I was...

Tuesday, 16 September 2008

Last Tuesday I flew into Edinburgh, the night before a banking conference that I was booked to speak at. I had been filling the journey...

Thursday, 6 November 2008

Sunday 5 October 2008 was the day that we were to get our remaining kit. It was to be a day of excitement, the start...

Tuesday, 25 November 2008

It was nearly 1:30 am by the time I left Belfast Rowing Club's annual dinner and I still had to get home, pack my kit,...

Friday, 28 November 2008

“I’m bloody loving this!” I said. “Ah, some Norwegian positivity” Inge replied. We were taking a quick food stop during our final training camp in...