On Wednesday 15th December just under 200 pupils from Hampshire Collegiate Junior School participated in a sponsored walk, raising funds for Arctic-Mummy and the Junior School’s charity “Schools in Madagascar”. The Children walked the walk for as long as they were able from 9.30 – 11.30am. Every class from nursery to year 6 took part, and Read More…
On the 21st of November we had team training at Wyley Valley Shooting Ground. Lucky for me this was just 20 minutes down the A303. After a coffee and bacon sarnies we were split up into two groups with 50 cartridges each and some ear defenders. The two instructors Jeff and Ian took us through Read More…
Not so long ago I was given a four wheel drive tyre to pull for my training. The tyre was given on the wheel, which made an already heavy tyre …. extremely heavy! I took the tyre down to ATS who, after much struggling, managed to remove the tyre from the wheel. The mechanic rolled Read More…
I have been watching 71 degrees North, the ITV programme about Celebs battling it out to be “The Champion”, in Arctic Norway with interest! I was sad to see Andrew Castle get voted off this week, I know he is the old man of the programme, but he is only a month older than me! Read More…
Training has definitely stepped up a level! A few weeks ago I was invited to a Greg Whyte training day at the National Training Centre. The event was hosted by Glacéau vitamin water, I had very little information, so did not really know what to expect, other than some hard work! Everybody came by train Read More…
I drove down to Yatton, near Bristol for a team training session yesterday. It was the first time we had all been together since early summer, and there was lots of admin to be done. We tasted a selection of the food rations. The breakfasts will take some getting used to. I ordered mostly porridge, Read More…
Last week I visited Abbots Ann Primary School to talk to the children about Challenge, Olympic Values and in particular my challenge in the Arctic. I did a short presentation, asking them about challenge, what challenges they had done, or were doing; and gave them some information about my trip and preparation. We then had Read More…
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